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Academic Resources Early caregiving experiences have long-term effects on social relationships, achievement; How to practice emotional hygiene; You're Wasting Precious Time; Here's How to Take It Back; Keep Your Brain Sharp; New section: Plagiarism - A Fresh Look at Self-Plagiarism; On Reusing Our Previously Disseminated Work; Pardon Me for Repeating Myself; All in a good night's sleep: How quality of sleep impacts academic performance in children; Practice really does make perfect; What is Google doing to your brain?; The Internet Has Become the External Hard Drive for Our Memories; Age of Distraction: Why It�s Crucial for Students to Learn to Focus; How Does Multitasking Change the Way Kids Learn?; New section: Mindfulness/Meditation - Can Meditation Curb Heart Attacks?; How Meditation May Change the Brain; Study Suggests Meditation Can Help Train Attention; iPhone separation linked to physiological anxiety, poor cognitive performance; Light-Emitting E-Readers Before Bedtime Can Adversely Impact Sleep; The impact of light from computer monitors on melatonin levels in college students; Stalking risk increases among college students; Social Media and the Cost of Caring; Facebook not to blame for negative impact on grades, professor says; Sex Offenses, Force - on Campus; Median weekly earnings by educational attainment in 2014; Stalking versus cyberstalking: Effects on victims, their responses compared; Why all-nighters don't work: How sleep, memory go hand-in-hand; Experts call for a rethink on guidelines about children's screen time; 27 Tips For Mastering Anything;10 Strategies Quick Learners Use To Pick Up Anything; 7 Scientifically Proven Ways to Achieve Better Success in Life;
7 Memory Skills That Will Make You Smarter; Why Practice Actually Makes Perfect: How to rewire your brain for better performance; Why we have our best ideas in the show: The Science of Creativity; How much sleep do we really need to work productively; 14 Surprising Things That Affect Your Willpower And Decision Making; Girls lead boys in academic achievement globally; For university students, walking beats sitting; Mindfulness-based program in schools making a positive impact, study shows; Well-Prepared in Their Own Eyes; Essential Screening Tests Every Man Needs; School failure linked to higher use of computers at home, Spanish study shows; Tablets and smartphones may affect social and emotional development, scientists speculate; 2014 SAT Report on College & Career Readiness; If Facebook use causes envy, depression could follow; Our thoughts are susceptible to external influence, even against our will; Bibliotherapy: Can you read yourself happy?; Reading Literary Fiction Improves "Mind-reading" skills Finds a study form the New School for Social Research;�LOSING YOURSELF� in a fictional character can affect your real life; Share with Care; College freshmen partied less in high school than their parents, report low emotional health;Tips to Stay Smart, Sharp, and Focused; U.S. students improving � slowly � in math and science, but still lagging internationally; Feeling unloved? Like this post; Angry Tweets Predict Patterns Of Heart Disease, Researchers Say; When Multitasking Makes You Happy and When It Doesn�t; Packing On the Pounds? The Blue Light From Your Phone Could Be to Blame; Most common reasons for dropping out; Are humans getting cleverer?; Time management: Why we feel busier when close to reaching a goal;Reliance on smartphones linked to lazy thinking; This Is What�s Keeping Teens From Getting Enough Sleep;Let Your Kids Sleep More For Better Grades; Let Your Kids Sleep More For Better Grades; Me, Myself, and Authenticity;The Benefits of No-Tech Note Taking; Does Facebook Make Women Feel Bad About Their Bodies?; Can Facebook Prolong Post-Breakup Pain?;10 Tricks for Paying Attention; 12 Worst Habits For Your Mental Health; Productivity video; Is your smartphone making you dumb?;How Millennials get their news; How to take a test; Most Popular postings about test-taking; Are smartphones making our children mentally ill?; Are mobile phones making you miss special moments?; How much math, science homework is too much?; New section: IQ and other academic testing; More schools, more challenging assignments add up to higher IQ scores; IQ of children in better-educated households is higher; Boys plagiarize more than girls at school; We don�t notice much of what we see: 85 college students tried to draw the Apple logo from memory; 84 failed; Phantom vibrations among undergraduates: Prevalence and associated psychological characteristics; Facebook Generation Face Information Withdrawal Syndrome ; 6 Apps That Block Online Distractions So You Can Get Work Done;

Indicators for Chronic Disease Surveillance � United States, 2013; Definitions of Health Terms: General Health; County-Level Variation in Prevalence of Multiple Chronic Conditions Among Medicare Beneficiaries, 2012; Preventing and Managing Chronic Disease to Improve the Health of Women and Infants; CDC Fact Sheet: Preventing and Managing Chronic Disease to Improve the Health of Women and Infants; U.S. public sees ill health as resulting from a broad range of causes, poll suggests; Changes in health care delivery essential to combat chronic disease;

Prescription Cholesterol-lowering Medication Use in Adults Aged 40 and Over: United States, 2003�2012;Optimistic people have healthier hearts, study finds; Summary of Recommendations for Aspirin Use to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease; VitalSigns: Preventable Deaths from Heart Disease & Stroke;Excess sitting linked to coronary artery calcification, an early indicator of heart problems; Foods to Help Lower LDL (�Bad�) Cholesterol; Fried Foods Tied to Raised Heart Failure Risk;Cholesterol Levels: High, Low, Good & Bad; TIME explains new cholesterol guidelines video; Foods to Avoid If You Have High Triglycerides; Folic acid supplementation among adults with hypertension reduces risk of stroke; THE 10 WORST FOODS FOR YOUR HEART, ACCORDING TO A CARDIOLOGIST;
New study links L-carnitine in red meat to heart disease; Study adds evidence on link between PTSD, heart disease;

Age-Adjusted Death Rate* for Stroke,� by Hispanic Ethnicity, Race for Non-Hispanic Population, and Sex � United States, 2000�2013;Tips for Taking Blood Thinners; Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Disease;Abnormal Heart Rhythms and Pacemakers; Heart Disease and Heart Bypass Surgery; New score predicts heart disease and stroke risk for anyone in world aged over 40;

Children with Special Health Care Needs New section: Disabilities: Disability Etiquette � Tips for Interacting with People with Disabilities - webpage; Disability Etiquette � Tips for Interacting with People with Disabilities (PDF); Guide to Disability for Health Insurance Marketplace Navigators; Disability Guide; Disability Topical Fact Sheets;

Chinese Culture Unmasking Horror -- A special report.; Japan Confronting Gruesome War Atrocity;Chinese Culture: Customs & Traditions of China; Terracotta Warriors: An Army for the Afterlife; Marco Polo: Facts, Biography & Travels; How the Chinese Zodiac Affects National Birth Rates; How Autocomplete Was Built into Chinese Typewriters; Life of Giant Pandas - Full Documentary;

Consumer Health Life Expectancy Calculator ; Beat Germs All Over Your House; Will You Live to 100?; Extreme Cold A Prevention Guide to Promote your Personal Health and Safety;PubMed Health for Consumers; Down for the Count; Safety Feature For Pedestrians Has Undesired Consequence; New section: Poisoning Information - Poison Peril; Poison Proof Your Home; What Can you do;

Cool Sites Index Page Bibliotherapy: Can you read yourself happy?; A Blast from the Past: How the World of Photography Was Changing Back in 1887; Event Data Recorder - Cars that track your driving and crash data;

Cool Sites M - Z The Average American Has This Much Saved in a 401(k) -- How Do You Compare?;'Saturday Night Live': All 141 Cast Members Ranked; Are 401(k) Fees Making Companies Richer at the Expense of Workers?;

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about... It's official: 2014 was the hottest year ever recorded; NASA | 2014 Continues Long-Term Global Warming; State of the Climate; Explainer: How do scientists measure global temperature?; 2014 Was the Warmest Year in the Modern Record; The Science of Persuasion [Infographic];This is the most detailed map yet of our place in the universe; Laniakea: Our home supercluster video; What is Culture? | Definition of Culture; American Culture: Traditions and Customs of the United States; Greatest Mysteries: How Did Human Culture Evolve?; Greatest Mysteries: What Causes Mass Extinctions?; 70 maps that explain America; The real state of the union, in 33 maps and charts; Coolest Archaeological Discoveries of 2014; Photos of Siberia's Mysterious Craters; Snowflakes Not So Perfect, High Speed Camera Reveals; The mysterious (and cool) science of icicles; Leonardo Da Vinci's 10 Best Ideas; Oldest footage of New York City ever; Daylight saving time: 8 things to know;Daylight Saving Time 2015: All the Memes You Need to See; Spring Forward: Daylight Saving Time Returning To Most Of U.S.;Daylight Saving Time Spring 2015: Why Arizona doesn't observe Daylight Saving; There�s no proof daylight saving time saves electricity, so why do we even bother?; Earth Pictures: Iconic Images of Earth from Space; The History of Lorem Ipsum; Pi, Anyone? The Secret to Memorizing Tens of Thousands of Digits; UNESCO World Heritage List; What is a Scientific Theory?; What Are Gamma-Rays?;Why Spring Gets About 30 Seconds Shorter Every Year;

Favorite Music Sites Music cuts across cultures; These 20 Unorthodox Instruments Are Making the Music of the Future; The Best Band From All 50 States; The Science of Inherited Nostalgia; Cascading Reminiscence Bumps in Popular Music; Copyright and the Music Marketplace; Terrible at remembering names? Blame it on the music, not the memory; Product placement, branding growing in popular music; How Much Did the Musicians of Woodstock Get Paid?; The Father of the Digital Synthesizer;

Fitness Top 12 Rewards of Exercise; All The Exercise GIFs You'll Ever Need; 6 Exercises for Better Posture; 5-minute Exercises at your Desk; Definitions of Health Terms: Fitness; Tips for Power Walking; Dancing as a Workout; Music and Your Workout; Turn Your Walk Into a Workout; Pictures of Blisters: Causes and Treatments; Knee Exercises Slide show; Study: Lack of cardio fitness can increase risk of death by more than a third; Ways to Get Strong Without Lifting Weights;

GraphingTaking Data and Making It Easier to Understand; What Great Data Visualization Looks Like: 12 Complex Concepts Made Easy; 25 of the Best PowerPoint Presentation Examples Every Marketer Should See; How to Make a Chart or Graph in Excel [With Video Tutorial]; How to Build a Pivot Table in Excel: A 1-Minute Explanation [Video];How to Use the VLOOKUP Function in Excel: A 1-Minute Explanation [Video]; Why Most People's Charts &amp Graphs Look Like Crap; 14 PowerPoint Presentation Tips to Make Your PPT Designs More Effective [+Templates];

Health Care Information The Strange Powers of the Placebo Effect; Use of Complementary Health Approaches in the U.S. National Health Interview Survey (NHIS); Meditation: What You Need To Know; Attention, Shoppers: Prices For 70 Health Care Procedures Now Online! NPR.org
Guroo.com Search for cost of medical procedures; Guroo.com All Conditions, Care Bundles, and Tests; What is Acupuncture?; The Dangers of Taking a Daily Aspirin;

Healthcare Quality Issues Advancing the science of measurement of diagnostic errors in healthcare: the Safer Dx framework; Medical errors in America kill more people than AIDS or drug overdoses. Here's why; Explicit and Standardized Prescription Medicine Instructions; Your privacy online: Health information at serious risk of abuse, researchers warn; The Impact of the Internet on the Consumers Health Behaviour;
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Health Education Resources Designing Effective Health Messages;Closing the Talent Gap, Attracting and Retaining Top Third Graduates to Careers in Teaching 2010; Components of the Whole School Whole Community Whole Child (WSCC);Buyer's remorse: Model shows people demand all that bad news; Make healthy choices a life-long habit to prevent early death;

Maternal Child Health Child Sex Trafficking and the Child Welfare System; CDC Immunizaition Tables; National, State, and Selected Local Area Vaccination Coverage Among Children Aged 19�35 Months � United States, 2013; Understanding Vaccinations; Vaccines do not cause autism, they save lives; Adult Immunization Schedules United States, 2015; Top 10 Vaccine-Preventable Diseases; Relationship of childhood abuse and household dysfunction to many of the leading causes of death in adults. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study; 10 Questions That Tell If Your Childhood Was Bad For Your Health; The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study Acestudy.org;
The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study: Linking childhood trauma to long-term health and social consequences; Take The ACE Quiz � And Learn What It Does And Doesn't Mean;Three Types of ACEs; ACEs Increase Health Risks; Who am I? New study links early family experiences, self-esteem with self-clarity; Wealth and power may have played a stronger role than 'survival of the fittest'; Many things can be read in a newborn's gaze;

Nutrition Resources Dietary Sugars Intake and Cardiovascular Health - A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association; What to Do After a Binge; Slideshow: Visual Guide to Binge Eating Disorder; Fructose more toxic than table sugar, mouse study suggests; How to Understand and Use the Nutrition Facts Label; May contain nuts. But how much is too much?; The Truth About GMOs; Little or no benefit from nutrient additions to vitamin waters and energy drinks; A Step-by-Step Guide: Using the Healthy Hospital Food, Beverage, and Physical Activity Environments Scans; Creating Healthier Hospital Food, Beverage, and Physical Activity Environments: Forming Teams, Engaging Stakeholders, Conducting Assessments and Evaluations; Best Diet Tips Ever -- 22 Ways to Stay on Track; 5 key findings on what Americans and scientists think about science; FDA to Investigate Added Caffeine; Kids Should Not Consume Energy Drinks, and Rarely Need Sports Drinks, Says AAP; The buzz on energy-drink caffeine; Voluntary and Mandatory Reports on 5-Hour Energy, Monster Energy, and Rockstar Energy Drink; January 1, 2004, through October 23, 2012; Trends in Caffeine Intake Among US Children and Adolescents; Definitions of Health Terms: Vitamins; Definitions of Health Terms: Nutrition;Definitions of Health Terms: Minerals; 10 things Coke, Pepsi and soda industry won�t say; Food Pronunciation Guide; New section: Seafood; Seafood & Your Health; Here�s How Caffeine Can Silently Kill Your Success; Dietary sugars intake and cardiovascular health: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association; Sweet poison: why sugar is ruining our health;Added Sugar in the Diet; Evidence that intermittent, excessive sugar intake causes endogenous opioid dependence; Pizza Is the Most Addictive Food, According to Science, So Here's Some Tips On Not Becoming an Addict; Here Are the Most Addicting Foods, According to Science; Yale Food Addiction Scale;8 Things You Don�t Know About Supplements; Makers of tainted supplements have criminal pasts; 13 Ways to Stop Drinking Soda for Good; Your Guide to Eating Healthy Carbs; Psychology of food choice: Challenging the status quo; Here's Why One Slice of Pizza Is Never Enough; Mediterranean diet cuts heart disease risk by nearly half; How healthy is genetically modified soybean oil?; A Quick Guide To The Mediterranean Diet; Lawmakers Take Aim at Link Between Antibiotics for Livestock and Infections in Humans; The Facts on Omega-3 Fatty Acids; Serious Health Problems Caused by Binge Eating; People with anorexia and body dysmorphic disorder have similar brain anomalies;This is what happens to your brain when you stop eating sugar; Spices and Herbs to Pump Up the Flavor; Surprising Food Combos for Big Flavor; New section: Nuts - Nuts and your heart: Eating nuts for heart health; New section: Additives to the food supply: Lawmakers Take Aim at Link Between Antibiotics for Livestock and Infections in Humans; Illegal Antibiotics Could Be in Your Milk, FDA Finds; 12 Surprising Sources of Caffeine; The one thing you need to know about weight loss and diet studies; Is It Safe to Eat Tuna Fish Every Day?; Sugar Addiction Is Real, and Here�s How It Happens; Intense Sweetness Surpasses Cocaine Reward; The 10 Dirtiest Foods You're Eating; GMO Science Deniers: Monsanto and the USDA; 10 Ways to Lighten Up Your Favorite Fatty Foods; The Myth of High-Protein Diets; What is the definition of 'natural' foods? Consumers want to know; Who Should�And Who Shouldn�t�Take Vitamin D;

Overweight teens lose weight for the right reasons, study shows; Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Adolescent Obesity in Southern Appalachia, 2012; Relationship Between Social Support and Body Mass Index Among Overweight and Obese African American Women in the Rural Deep South, 2011�2013; 15 Things Nobody Tells You About Losing Weight; Weight Loss Surgery: What to Expect; New section: Weight Loss Surgery:Alcoholism after gastric bypass: Is it in your mind or gut?; Choosing a Safe and Successful Weight-loss Program; Pharmacological Management of Obesity: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline; Obesity Hyperguide; What is Obesity?;U.S. Obesity Rate Inches Up to 27.7% in 2014; Recommendations for prevention of weight gain and use of behavioural and pharmacologic interventions to manage overweight and obesity in adults in primary care; Two Different Paths to Obesity and What They Have in Common; Parental Weight Status and Offspring Cardiovascular Disease Risks: a Cross-Sectional Study of Chinese Children; A break in the obesity epidemic? Explained by biases or misinterpretation of the data?; What's Really Making Us Fat?; Level of pollutants accumulated in the body linked to obesity levels; Your Definitive Guide to Losing Body Fat; 10 HABITS THAT MAKE YOU SICK AND FAT;
Obesity is associated with brain's neurotransmitters; The Most Obese Cities in America; 2015�s Metro Areas with the Biggest & Smallest Weight Problems; 10 WAYS TO END OVEREATING FOREVER;How Much Should I Weigh For My Age & Height?; Pregnancy weight gain tilts the scales for child becoming obese; Food Cravings That Wreck Your Diet; 5 Gut-Busting Diet Mistakes; Babies' body mass index may predict childhood obesity; 9 Lies You Tell Yourself About Food and Dieting; Obese women 40 percent more likely to get cancer; Body Temperature and Obesity: New Study Suggests Connection; Study measures the foul smell of fat bias;What You Need To Know About Obesity and Cancer; Small, practical steps are best way of maintaining a healthy weight; High-fat diet alters behavior and produces signs of brain inflammation; The Real Gains From Losing Weight; 11 Lazy Ways to Lose Weight; 17 Ways to Lose Weight When You Have No Time;

Public Health Sites A - C Recommendations for HIV prevention with adults and adolescents with HIV in the United States, 2014; What Heroin Addiction Tells Us About Changing Bad Habits; A Bad Mix: Why Alcohol and Energy Drinks Are Dangerous; Alcohol good for your heart? Evidence is Evaporating; A Shot of Truth: Myth Busting Excessive Alcohol Use; Alcohol places Hispanics at a much greater risk of developing alcoholic liver disease; A lower IQ has been linked to greater and riskier drinking among young adult men; This is what happens to your brain when you give up sugar; Understanding Drug Abuse and Addiction: What Science Says: The reward pathway; Drug and Alcohol Use with Diabetes; New section: Allergies: 9 Weirdest Allergies; New EpiPen Law Could Save Lives; Allergies Pictures Slideshow: 10 Common Allergy Triggers; What Works for Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: LESSONS FROM EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATIONS OF PROGRAMS AND INTERVENTIONS; 3 drinks a day may raise risk of liver cancer; coffee may lower it; HIV can spread early, evolve in patients� brains;

Public Health Sites D-G Providing Comprehensive Health Care to Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM); Understanding Gallstones -- the Basics; Sexual Orientation in the 2013 National Health Interview Survey: A Quality Assessment; Why You Need Emotional Intelligence To Succeed; New section: CO2 Emissions: A visual tour of the world's CO2 emissions; The 10 Biggest Earthquakes in History; 2014 Was the Warmest Year in the Modern Record; �Superman� pill deaths spark calls for dangerous-drugs alert system; Understanding transgender youth; Reading the Mind in the Eyes or Reading between the Lines? Theory of Mind Predicts Collective Intelligence Equally Well Online and Face-To-Face; People Who Are Good at Cocktail Parties Are Also Better at the Internet; Test your social intelligence!; New section: Snow storms: 9 Types of Snow Storms; 10 Biggest Snowstorms of All Time; A look at the top 10 biggest snowstorms on record in NYC; Blizzard Facts and Myths (INFOGRAPHIC); Climate Strange: 5 Monster March Snowstorms; Expect More Giant Snowstorms as Climate Warms (Op-Ed); Lake-Effect Snowstorms Effect Snowstorms; Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Snowstorms in the Contiguous United States; The Science Behind Freak Snowstorms; Winter Storms; HOW TO
PREPARE FOR A WINTER STORM; Antisocial and non-antisocial siblings share difficulty recognizing emotions; What LGBT Americans think of same-sex marriage; Regional Snowfall Index (RSI) - Worst Northeastern Snow Events; A Perfect Storm � The Rise in Heroin Addiction in the Middle Class; Stunning maps show what major cities would look like under hundreds of feet of water;
All Of These Beautiful Islands Will Be Destroyed By Rising Sea Levels; Meth messes up brains of youths far more than adults; Marijuana: Know the Facts; Proportion of patients in south London with fi rst-episode psychosis attributable to use of high potency cannabis: a case-control study; Fourth National Exposure Report, Updated Tables, February, 2015; New section: Indoor Air: What is aerotoxic syndrome?; Warning over toxic fumes in plane cabins; Not So Harmless? Pot Linked to Heart Problems; Endocrine Disorders; Here�s the Staggering Healthcare Cost of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals; Exposure to endocrine disruptors during pregnancy affects the brain two generations later, rat study shows; Marijuana May Trigger Allergies in Some People;The Scoop on Poop;Endocrine disruptors cause fatty liver; El Ni�o has arrived. Will it help make 2015 the hottest year on record?; New section: See above Endocrine Health topic; Early Menopause Linked to Chemical Exposure in Women 3/2015; Estimating Burden and Disease Costs of Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in the European Union 3/2015; Male Reproductive Disorders, Diseases, and Costs of Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in the European Union 3/2015;
Neurobehavioral Deficits, Diseases and Associated Costs of Exposure to Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in the European Union 3/2015; New section: Fatigue - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; Gender identity, explained in an adorable infographic; 11 myths about transgender people; Harder-to-abuse oxycontin doesn't stop illicit use; One in six college students misuse ADHD stimulant drugs; Americans are still divided on why people are gay; Metaphor usage highlights social bonds and increases understanding of others' emotions; Heavy Use of Marijuana During Adolescence Equals Weaker Memories;How cannabis use affects people with Bipolar Disorder; 8 Most Addictive Legal Drugs; The big climate question: Can we sever the link between CO2 and economic growth?; 9 Habits of Emotionally Intelligent People; 5 Habits Of Emotionally Intelligent People; What�s Really in Street-Bought Molly?; How Environmental Exposure May Affect Your Child; Legalizing marijuana and the new science of weed; New section: Air pollution; Air pollution linked to increased risk of anxiety and stroke; New section: Thunderstorms - Thunderstorms, Tornadoes, Lightning... A Preparedness Guide; Know your Hazards and Choose your Activities; Basic Disaster Supplies Kit;

Public Health Sites H-L A History of Ebola in 24 Outbreaks; Death Rates from Viral Hepatitis Among Adults Aged ≥18 Years,* by Age Group and Sex � National Vital Statistics System, United States, 1999�2011 Weekly; Perceptions of the Risk for Ebola and Health Facility Use Among Health Workers and Pregnant and Lactating Women � Kenema District, Sierra Leone, September 2014; A Visual Guide to COPD; State Ebola Protocols; Interim Guidance for U.S. Hospital Preparedness for Patients under Investigation or with Confirmed Ebola Virus Disease: A Framework for a Tiered Approach; Identify, Isolate, Inform: Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems and 9-1-1 Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) for Management of Patients Who Present with Possible Ebola Virus Disease (Ebola) in the United States SCOPE: Applies to emergency medical services providers (including emergency medical technicians (EMTs), paramedics, and medical first responders who could be providing patient care; Interim Guidance for Cargo Ships: Monitoring Exposed Crew and Managing Suspected Cases of Ebola Onboard; Remember the Ebola epidemic? It's still not over. Here's the report from the ground;Listen Up!; Noises Can Damage Your Hearing; Use of a Nationwide Call Center for Ebola Response and Monitoring During a 3-Day House-to-House Campaign � Sierra Leone, September 2014; Improving Burial Practices and Cemetery Management During an Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic � Sierra Leone, 2014; Trichinellosis Surveillance � United States, 2008�2012; Recommendations for Managing and Preventing Cases of Malaria in Areas with Ebola; Environment, not genes, dictates human immune variation, study finds; New section: Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in Healthcare Settings; Prevention of Colonization and Infection by Klebsiella pneumoniae Carbapenemase;Producing Enterobacteriaceae in Long Term Acute Care Hospitals; Tracking CRE; 2012 CRE Toolkit - Guidance for Control of Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE); Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) Control and Prevention Toolkit;General information about CRE; Tickborne Relapsing Fever � United States, 1990�2011; Public Health Response to Commercial Airline Travel of a Person with Ebola Virus Infection � United States, 2014; Update on the Epidemiology of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) Infection, and Guidance for the Public, Clinicians, and Public Health Authorities � January 2015;Effectiveness of Ebola Treatment Units and Community Care Centers � Liberia, September 23�October 31, 2014; A Plan for Community Event-Based Surveillance to Reduce Ebola Transmission � Sierra Leone, 2014�2015; Ebola: Tracking the Outbreak; The Price of a Human Kidney; Guidance for U.S. Laboratories for Managing and Testing Routine Clinical Specimens When There is a Concern About Ebola Virus Disease; Fungal Infections: What You Should Know; 13 Numbers That Explain The Resurgence Of Measles In The U.S.; Interim Recommendations for Influenza Vaccination and Post-exposure Chemoprophylaxis to Prevent Influenza Virus Infection in People Being Actively Monitored for Potential Ebola Virus Exposure; Preventing Ebola by Screening Travelers; Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic � West Africa, January 2015; Guidance Available for Implementing and Managing Contact Tracing for Ebola in Countries Without Ebola Outbreaks; Measles Vaccination: Who Needs It?; Measles and the Vaccine (Shot) to Prevent It; Measles and the Vaccine (Shot) to Prevent It Fact Sheet for Parents; Addressing Needs of Contacts of Ebola Patients During an Investigation of an Ebola Cluster in the United States � Dallas, Texas, 2014; Use of Group Quarantine in Ebola Control � Nigeria, 2014; Is It a Cold or Is It the Flu?; State Ebola Protocols; Interim Table of State Ebola Screening and Monitoring Policies for Asymptomatic Individuals; Ebola and the Law: Legal Preparedness for Physicians and Hospitals; Measles Outbreak � California, December 2014�February 2015; Clinical Guidance for Smallpox Vaccine Use in a Postevent Vaccination Program; 9 things everybody should know about measles;What You Need to Know: FAQ�s on the Measles; Top Causes of Severe Hearing Loss; Antibiotics give rise to new communities of harmful bacteria; History and Epidemiology of Global Smallpox Eradication; What You Should Know About �Superbug� CRE; 5 things to know about measles right now; Measles outbreak is back in the United States! Are vaccines the answer?; 9 Charts That Will Help You Understand The Current Measles Outbreak; New section: Herd Immunity; Systems for Rapidly Detecting and Treating Persons with Ebola Virus Disease � United States; 7 scary facts about antibiotic-resistant superbugs; Antimicrobial Resistance: Tackling a crisis
for the health and wealth of nations; Antibiotic resistance: The last resort; magining the Post-Antibiotics Future;Doctors know they shouldn't give antibiotics for bronchitis, do it anyway; McDonald's USA Announces New Antibiotics Policy and Menu Sourcing Initiatives; FDA's Strategy on Antimicrobial Resistance - Questions and Answers;There's a superbug outbreak in California. But it's really a global problem;Drug-resistant infections will kill more people than cancer by 2050; 7 Devastating Infectious Diseases; Map: How the Ebola Outbreak Spread Through Africa; 10 Signs You May Have Kidney Disease; 10 Signs & Symptoms of Liver Damage; Epidemics: To quarantine or not to quarantine;Common bacteria on verge of becoming antibiotic-resistant superbugs; How the Human Immune System Keeps TB at Bay; National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria; COMBATING ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE: Policies To Promote Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs; Antibiotic Resistance Solutions Initiative; REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT ON COMBATING ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; Fighting Ebola with a holistic vision of big data;

Public Health Sites M - N Intermittent Explosive Disorder Affects up to 16 Million Americans; A Visual Guide to Asthma; How Different Antidepressants Work; A Visual Guide to Generalized Anxiety Disorder; 27 Ways Pets Can Improve Your Health; Cancer Disparities Among Alaska Native People, 1970�2011; Generational Differences in Fast Food Intake Among South-Asian Americans: Results From a Population-Based Survey;10 Ways to Reduce Stress, Fatigue, and Bloating; Study identifies two genes that boost risk for post-traumatic stress disorder;How thoughts, behavior affect mood;ADHD in Children Slideshow; Incidence of Notifiable Diseases Among American Indians/Alaska Natives � United States, 2007�2011; Advancing Men's Reproductive Health in the United States; The Truth About Antidepressants; 10 Surprising Signs You May Have ADHD; A Visual Guide to Erectile Dysfunction; On the ups and downs of the seemingly idle brain; Managing Anxiety in the Medically Ill; Stress in America Annual Reports; STRESS IN AMERICA� Paying with Our Health RELEASED FEBRUARY 4, 2015; Meditation: A simple, fast way to reduce stress; Homeless Children and Youth: Indicators on Children and Youth; Brain develops abnormally over lifespan of people who stutter; This is your brain on love; The neurobiology of love; 7 things I wish people understood about OCD; What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?; Reward, Addiction, and Emotion Regulation Systems Associated With Rejection in Love;Neural correlates of long-term intense romantic love; Bipolar II Disorder; Shy babies need secure parent bond to help prevent potential teen anxiety; Unhealthy choices boosted mortality rates for blacks who migrated north; American Diabetes Association Releases Position Statement on New BMI Screening Cut Points for Diabetes in Asian Americans; 5 Things a Man's Finger Length Says About Him; How ADHD typically affects women, and how to cope with it; Good to Know: Which Websites Can Reduce Anxiety and Depression?; Cognitive behavioral therapy at a glance; Nerve Pain Explained; Alzheimer amyloid clumps found in young adult brains; Men tend to be more narcissistic than women, study finds;Brain structure varies depending on how trusting people are of others, study shows; New section: Mental Health - Sidewalk Rage; Get Out of My Way, You Jerk!; More on Pedestrian Aggression;
'Sidewalk Rage': Yes, It's A Real Concept; Sidewalk Rage Is Real and It�s Spectacular; Sidewalk Rage: Mental Illness or �Altruistic Punishment?�;
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Public Health Software 23 maps and charts on language; Stunning maps show what major cities would look like under hundreds of feet of water; Mapping seascapes in the deep ocean; 70 maps that explain America;Mapping the Microbes in New York City�s Subway System; Rediscovered 'Map That Changed the World' Unveiled to Public; How North America Grew as a Continent; The Map that Changed the World; Work site wellness centers equate to weight loss and health care savings, expert says;

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[New Benchmark Data]; 5 Quick Tips for Using Periscope, Twitter's New Live Video Streaming App; A Simple Guide to Using Hashtags on Twitter [Infographic]; 14 Ways to Increase Your Clickthrough Rate on Twitter;Online creep: Targeted ads may have opposite effect of marketers' intent; Internet of Things Research 2014 Study; An internet search engine operator is responsible for the processing that it carries out of personal data which appear on web pages published by third parties; (Court of Justice of the European Union); Here�s What Scientists Learned In The Largest Systematic Study Of Email Habits; The Quantified Baby; Managing Media: We Need a Plan; Click Here Or Else: The Evolution of Chain Emails; LinkedIn�s Newest App, Elevate, Helps Employees Share Content & Helps Employers View Results;New cyberthreat information-sharing bill may be more friendly to privacy; Web app attacks, PoS intrusions and cyberespionage leading causes of data breaches; Verizon's 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report; Errors Like Email Fails Cause 30 Percent of Data Breaches, Verizon Says; GAO Report Says Airplanes Are Vulnerable to Hacking;Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015; Smartphones In Kids' Bedrooms Are Worse Than TV, Study Says; PIR, GNOC: Texting Acronyms Parents Need to Know; 99 texting acronyms and phrases that every parent should know; Formulas that drive social networks help illuminate organized cybercrime; New section: Artificial Intelligence (AI); More Fear Of Human Intelligence Than Artificial Intelligence In 'Ex Machina'; Twitter turns its home page into a news and information hub; Only 14% Of U.S. Teens Say Facebook Is Most Important, But Nearly Half Still Use It;Twitter Is Pushing Celebrities And Publishers To Stop Using Meerkat;Twitter Flips Switch On New Homepage For People Who Aren�t Logged In; The Man Building Robots to Better Understand Humans; The smartphone: An essential travel guide; Periscope & Meerkat: Your Brand�s Ultimate Guide to Livestreaming Apps; 10 Tactics for Launching a Product Using Social Media; How Search Engines Process Links; New section: Analytics; Periscope & Meerkat: Your Brand�s Ultimate Guide to Livestreaming Apps; Are Travel Selfies Narcissistic?;Updated Airport Wi-fi Guide; 10 Tactics for Launching a Product Using Social Media; Infinite Scroll: Is It Right For Your Site? How Search Engines Process Links; Ten Hidden Gems In Google Analytics: Do Smarter Web Data Analysis; Screwing Up Artificial Intelligence Could Be Disastrous, Experts Say; Elon Musk: Artificial Intelligence Is Humanity's 'Biggest Existential Threat'; History of A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Infographic); Artificial Intelligence: Friendly or Frightening?; A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence; Don't Let Artificial Intelligence Take Over, Top Scientists Warn; History of A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Infographic); Elon Musk: Artificial Intelligence - Humanity's 'Biggest Existential Threat'; Stephen Hawking: Artificial Intelligence Could End Human Race; New Artificial Intelligence Challenge Could Be the Next Turing Test; Super-Intelligent Machines: 7 Robotic Futures; The Singularity Is Near: Mind Uploading by 2045?;Intelligent Robots Will Overtake Humans by 2100, Experts Say; Chrome users roast Google on spit of hate over revamped bookmarks manager; 5 Reasons to Fear Robots; Science Fiction or Fact: Humanlike Intelligent Machines Will Soon Exist; Noam Chomsky on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong; The Three Breakthroughs That Have Finally Unleashed AI on the World;Unfriended and Horror�s Long Tradition of Fearing New Tech; The Sheer Difficulty of Defining What a Robot Is; Young women objectify themselves more browsing Facebook, magazines than media types; Increase seen in data breaches of health information;Facebook Says It�s Winning The Battle Against Fake Likes; Feds lay down social media rules; enterprises should, too; New section: Social media standards, policies and guidelines; LA-15-03: OGE Issues Legal Advisory on the Standards of Conduct and Social Media;How to Craft a Social Media Policy; 15 Big Social Media Mistakes Companies Make and How to Avoid Them; Feds lay down social media rules; enterprises should, too; The Machines are coming;How to Retweet the Right Way (With a Comment) on Twitter; How to Tweet on Twitter: 8 Formulas to Get You Started; How to Create and Optimize Your Twitter Profile; Social shaming and the search for validation; Robots can't dance; 4 Negative Psychological Effects of Using Facebook Too Much; contagion through social networks; Facebook Use Predicts Declines in Subjective Well-Being in Young Adults; Does Facebook affect our self-esteem, sense of belonging?; 7 Ways Facebook Is Bad for Your Mental Health; Facebook use 'makes people feel worse about themselves'; Top 5 Negative Effects of Facebook on Us; How Facebook Makes Us Unhappy; Positive and Negative Effects of Facebook on Society; The Anxiety of Facebook; 5 Weird Negative Effects of Social Media on Your Brain; Negative Impact of Social Networking Sites; Study: Posting Facebook Photos Negatively Impacts Real-Life Relationships; The Negative Effect of Social Media on Society and Individuals; Facebook not to blame for negative impact on grades, professor says; Social media: how does it really affect our mental health and well-being?;
Facebook and Twitter feed anxiety, study finds; Top 10 Negative Effects of Facebook on Teens; The Negative Effects of Social Media on Children and Young Adults; In Emerging Markets, Internet Blamed For Having Negative Impact On Morality; Why Facebook Makes You Feel Bad About Yourself; Social Media: Signs of Negative Impact on Marriage; 44% Of Employees Think That Twitter, Facebook Negatively Impact The Workplace [STUDY]; Cyber-Bullying and its Effect on our Youth; Evidence Grows That Online Social Networks Have Insidious Negative Effects; Battle of the best browsers: IE vs. Chrome vs. Firefox vs. Safari vs. Opera vs. Project Spartan; Seeing Everyone Else's Highlight Reels: How Facebook Usage is Linked to Depressive Symptoms; Facebook Tinkers With Users� Emotions in News Feed Experiment, Stirring Outcry; Facebook Makes Us Sadder And Less Satisfied, Study Finds; Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional;The fascinating story of the man who invented stereo (and pioneered TV and radar too); 10 Simple Ways Identity Thieves Steal Your Credit Card;Why Blogs on Subdomains are Basically Worthless for SEO; Online discussion forums good for well-being, study shows; Certain interactive tools click with web users; Back to Basics: What Content Marketers Need to Know About Google Analytics; The One Place Where Hackers Don�t Steal Your Information; Better social media techniques increase fan interest, engagement; Top 10 Golden Rules of Facebook; New Research Finds That Facebook Use Is Linked To Depressive Symptoms; Five ways to bump up your Google mobile search ranking;Back to the future: 10 retro technologies that refuse to die; What is a zero-day attack, and can anything defend against it?; 9 New Facts on How Teens Use the Top Social Networks; Everything Marketers Want To Know About Social Media Marketing But Are Too Afraid To Ask; Twitter�s Full Google Search Integration Is Coming In May; 8 Ways Social Media Can Impact Your SEO; How to Disappear from the Web; How to Avoid a Google Penalty; How Twitter can help predict emergency room visits; How Facebook is changing the way we think and feel; Mapping and translating the emoji universe on Instagram; R.I.P., Windows Media Center; US reviews use of cellphone spying technology; Free software to replace Microsoft Office, Photoshop, Outlook, Quicken and more; Check to see if your neighbors are stealing your Internet; This Infographic Will Make You Think Twice Before You Post To Social Media;Cell Phones and Pregnancy;Social network experiments create a tipping point to improve public health; How Photographers Are Using Instagram to Help Nepal; What Facebook�s �It�s Not Our Fault� Study Really Means; Why scientists are upset about the Facebook filter bubble study; Facebook�s Filter Study Raises Questions About Transparency;
Facebook�s Emotional Manipulation Study Is Just the Latest Effort to Prod Users; How Far the Internet Revolution Has Come: Who Has Yet to Get Online
Internet used by 3.2 billion people in 2015; The Data Made Me Do It; Facebook Use Polarizing? Site Begs to Differ; Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook; The Filterbubble; New social media section: Flickr; Some Flickr users facing browser support woes; Tech nostalgia: The top 15 innovations of the 1990s; A Beginner's Guide to Publishing on LinkedIn; 22 LinkedIn Hacks That'll Make You More Productive [SlideShare]; Hashing Out Hashtags: What They Are & How to Use Them [Infographic]; How to Tweet on Twitter: 12 Templates to Get You Started; 12 Pinnable Pinterest Pins That Teach You How to Use Pinterest; Which Social Networks Should You Focus On? Here Are 6 Ways to Find Out; 9 Highly Reputable Resources for Compelling Marketing Stats; 8 Myths People Believe About Analytics (But Shouldn't); Want to Learn Marketing Analytics? Start With These 9 Great Resources; How to Analyze Your Blog Posts: A Beginner's Guide; When to Check on Your Marketing Metrics: A Simple Guide; How to Use LinkedIn Emails to Generate Loads of Leads; Rise of the machines; The dawn of artificial intelligence; Teen hormones and cellphones; New section: SnapChat; How to find out if your kids are sexting on Snapchat; Important step in artificial intelligence: Stylized letters classified by their images; Bigger than Heartbleed, 'Venom' security vulnerability threatens most datacenters; Before Heartbleed: Worst vulnerabilities ever?; Tech nostalgia: The top 10 innovations of the 1980s;Young women objectify themselves more browsing Facebook, magazines than media types; Updated Airport Wi-Fi Guide; Is your smartphone being tracked? We asked an expert; 13 Hyperlapse videos that capture the beauty of transit around the world; AIM graveyard: An ode to the chat app that defined my social life; 7 Unhealthy Habits That Mobile Apps Encourage; How to Delete Your Twitter Account;How to Make Facebook Friends Private; Tech nostalgia: The top 10 innovations of the 2000s; Today's Kids Face 'Facebook Depression'; 'Facebook Depression': Rare but Serious Side Effect of Social Networking; A Simple Formula for Writing Kick-Ass Blog Titles; How to Spot a Lead on Twitter [Flowchart]; Competing With Content Marketing: 7 Steps to Success [Infographic];A Visual History of Google Algorithm Updates [Infographic]; With one false tweet, computer-based hack crash led to real panic;Online safety: If you want something done right, do it yourself; Americans� Attitudes About Privacy, Security and Surveillance; 14 Examples Of The New Tweets Showing Up In Google Search;Facebook: The other Internet; Use privacy software if you want to be safe from Facebook, warns watchdog; 44 percent of parents struggle to limit cell phone use at playgrounds; 9 tech companies' earliest website designs; Tech nostalgia: The top 10 innovations of the 1970s; How Facebook Wants to Be Your Entire Internet; How to Delete Your Facebook Account; Even a factory reset in Android phones leaves user data behind; Most Americans Want More Privacy, Don�t Trust Advertisers, Social Media Or Search; Research Reveals The Distinct Ways Users Search; Facebook status updates reveal low self-esteem and narcissism; 15 Mistakes Too Many People Make When Buying a Computer; 'Deep web search' may help scientists; Restoring a vibrant and open Internet; Data breach costs now average $154 per record; Thieves stole data on 100,000 taxpayers via IRS app; What Insecure People Post on Facebook, Plus More Secret Meanings in Your Status; Don't PANIC but ... UNSTOPPABLE robots IMMUNE to injury built by boffins; Twitter Upgrades Analytics With Audience Insights; How to find someone's social media accounts; Large-scale attack uses browsers to hijack routers; Attackers use email spam to infect PoS terminals; If Narcissus had been on Facebook � Study examines personality as revealed by Facebook updates; Google launches Internet of Things platform Project Brillo; The Internet of Things: Everything You Need to Know In 2 Minutes; Internet of Things (IoT); MIT's self-destructing origami robot could one day heal you from the inside; Meet An Origami Robot That Can Build Itself, Run Around, And Then Dissolve; Your Tool to Watch Netflix Abroad Also Makes You Vulnerable to Hacking; 10 Simple Ways Identity Thieves Steal Your Credit Card; Misuses of 4 Google Analytics Metrics Debunked; State of the internet: 5 takeaways from the annual Internet Trends report; Ten tips to help Windows users transition to OS X; Internet Use: Both Addicts and Abstainers at Risk for Health Problems;Pathological Internet Use May Cause Teen Depression; Teens turn to Internet to cope with health challenges; Is Health a Click Away? Most Americans Find Medical Info Online; Majority of Teens Surf the Web for Answers to Health Questions; Your Step-by-Step Guide to A/B Testing with Google Analytics; You can now protect your Facebook messages from snooping eyes; Teens & Social: What�s the Latest?; US Adults� Daily Major Media Consumption Estimates, 2011-2015; Is the Radiation From My Cell Phone Dangerous?; 46 Percent Of Internet Users Are Aware Of New Domain Extensions [Survey]; Get your head in the cloud: Kurzweil predicts humans will be artifically intelligent by 2030; Today's Kids Face 'Facebook Depression';'Facebook Depression': Rare but Serious Side Effect of Social Networking; Identitytheft.gov; 70 of the Most Useful Websites on the Internet; The psychology behind Web browsing; Net Neutrality Goes Into Effect: What Consumers Should Expect; How to Avoid Snooping on Hotel Wi-Fi and Other Public Networks; What your age says about how you use the Web; The psychology behind Web browsing; Why your brain wants to check Facebook every 31 seconds � and how you can stop it;Here�s How to Download and Delete What Google Search Knows About You; PrivacyGrade: Grading The Privacy Of Smartphone Apps; Auto-detect whether your computer is 32 or 64-bit;Who Will Own the Robots?; 9 Important SEO Lessons from Old School PR; 2013 Search Engine Ranking Factors; Can You Rank in Google Without Links? New Data Says Slim Chance; Thinking about Deterrence Enduring Questions in a Time of Rising Powers, Rogue Regimes, and Terrorism; New section: Reddit; How to Get Your Slice of Reddit�s 150 Million Pageviews; 7 Ways To Get More ROI From LinkedIn Publisher Posts; The 5 Most Meaningful Google Analytics Reports for Social Media Marketers; 3 �Hidden� Google Analytics Reports For Retailers; Seven Google Analytics tips for beginners; Avoid the Facepalm: 5 Common Mistakes in Your Google Analytics Tracking Code; Instagram behavior for teens different than adults; Hit Counters: The Analytics Tool of the Early Web; 12 fun and crazy Google Tips & Tricks;
7 of the Biggest Smartphones Myths That Just Won't Die; Separating science fact from science fiction in robotics (with video); How To Become A Better Social Media Manager?; The Evolution Of SEO Trends Over 25 Years;

Wellness Resources Part I (1 - 5) 20 Differences Between Friends And Best Friends; New section: Lying; 3 Troubling Ways Parents Help Kids Become Liars; The Truth About Lying; Parents Lie More in Front of Sons, Not Daughters; The Google-Twitter Deal Goes Live, Giving Tweets Prominent Placement In Google�s Results; The Number One Relationship Problem, According To Therapists � and How to Fix It;

Women's Health Women in the Labor Force: A Databook; Why Women Have More Childhood Memories Than Men; statusofwomen.org; State data of women;

Women's Health - Life Cycle Ozone air pollution could harm women's fertility; Endometriosis associated with a greater risk of complications in pregnancy;

Writing Think Grammar Doesn't Matter? It Could Be Holding You Back From a Promotion; This Embarrasses You and I* Grammar Gaffes Invade the Office in an Age of Informal Email, Texting and Twitter; Serial Comma; Quickanddirtytrips.com; How to Develop a Daily Writing Habit; How to Automatically Format an Existing Document in Word 2013; How to manage Word styles like a pro; THE GREAT �IN-DEPTH ARTICLES� DISAPPEARING TRICK; 4 Psychological Principles That Will Make You Better At Content Marketing; The Psychology Behind Writing a Great Pitch;Publication Prejudices: An Experimental Study of Confirmatory Bias in the Peer Review System; How to Write Content That Engages Mobile Readers; Keep it long: Most science writing advice flops, analysis finds; 9 Simple Ways to Write Stronger Introductions; 5 Bad Writing Habits to Drop Right Now; These 30 Words are Always Mispronounced; A Data-Backed Approach to Writing Great Headlines [Infographic]; In Plain Words: Creating Easy-to-Read Handouts;

Career Resources How dysfunctional is your boss?; 20 Things You Should Leave Off Your Resume and LinkedIn Profile; The Changing Nature of Middle-Class Jobs; National Center for Health Workforce Analysis; Older workers bring valuable knowledge to the job; Employee Tenure Trends, 1983�2014; How to Properly Format Your Resume [Infographic]; How to Write a Marketing Resume Hiring Managers Will Notice [Free Templates + Samples];Frequently Asked Questions about working in Antarctica; Job interview noobies: Avoid these 10 mistakes; Three interview questions you need to be ready to answer;The 10 best ways to handle a job interview; 10 ways to be liked in your job interview; Five tips for acing a phone interview; Being a Go-Getter Is No Fun; Most unusual resume mistakes; 10 mistakes that could ruin your resume; Build and maintain your resume with the help of these five apps; 10 resume mistakes to avoid; Current salary benchmarks; Class of 2015: Ready, willing and able;

July - September 2015

Academic Resources Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away; No Phones, Please, This Is a Communications Class; How to Study and Learn Effectively; Smartphones are distracting us even when we aren�t looking at them; Push Notifications Are as Distracting as Phone Calls; Does Being Unpopular With the Opposite Sex Lead to Better Grades?; Suicide on Campus and the Pressure of Perfection; The Science of Laziness; How to Read Critically: 8 Steps; 16 Timeless Quotes About The Power Of Learning; How Standardized Tests Are Scored (Hint: Humans Are Involved);Screen Addiction Is Taking a Toll on Children; Why Do Colleges Give Out �Honorary� Degrees?; Notetaking Infographic; The First Aid Kit Every College Student Needs; 4 Tips for Creating an Effective To-Do List; Pressure to be available 24/7 on social media causes teen anxiety, depression; Social Media Use in Teens Linked to Poor Sleep, Anxiety; 1 in 4 Female Undergrads Experienced Sex Assault or Misconduct, AAU Survey Finds; College Drinking - Changing the Culture;

5 Cancers You're More Likely To Get As You Age; Student Indoor Tanning; Colorectal Cancer Screening* Among Adults Aged 50�75 Years, by Race and Hispanic Origin� � National Health Interview Survey,� United States, 2000�2013; 1999�2012 Cancer Incidence and Mortality Data;

New section: Lifestyle factors; Unhealthy lifestyle can knock 23 years off lifespan; Healthful Diet and Physical Activity: Counseling Adults with High Risk for CVD; Combined Diet and Physical Activity Promotion Programs to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes Among Persons at Increased Risk: A Systematic Review for the Community Preventive Services Task Force; Receipt of Selected Clinical Preventive Services by Adults � United States, 2011�2012;

'Good' Cholesterol: What's in a Number?; What Pill Should I Take for Pain? Heart Age Infographics; Heart Age Predictor Using BMI; Long working hours and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis of published and unpublished data for 603838 individuals;

Chinese Culture The On Leong Tong Building: Chinese Architecture Brought to Life in NYC;Do Chinese People Lead More Nuanced Emotional Lives?; Diabetes and Asians and Pacific Islanders; The Amazing Animals of China;

Behavioral Health Barometer - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - Region I, 2014;

Cool Sites A- L Financial Protection; 11 of the Most Interesting Lenses in the History of Photography; Back in 1995,
Back in 1995, A 1MP Pro Digital Camera Cost $20,000; 20 Simple Tricks For Better Gas Mileage;

Combined Diet and Physical Activity Promotion Programs to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes Among Persons at Increased Risk: A Systematic Review for the Community Preventive Services Task Force;More research links sedentary time to diabetes; Common Diabetes Terms; The Diabetes Report Card 2014;Prevalence of and Trends in Diabetes Among Adults in the United States, 1988-2012; Diabetes in the U.S. Population; Diabetes 2014 Report Card;

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about... Calbuco, Chile Video; U.S. History and Historical Documents; 20 Startling Facts about American Society and Culture; Photos: A look at NASA's discovery of Earth 2.0; Official 11 Year Time-Lapse Movie of One World Trade Center; 9/11 Remembered in Space Photos; These 26 Pictures Will Make You Re-Evaluate Your Entire Existence;

Favorite Movie Sites12 Modern Movies That Were (Surprisingly) Based On Literary Classics; 30 Pixar Movie Facts You Never Knew;
Why CG Sucks (Except It Doesn't); 36 Movie Titles With Hilarious Foreign Translations; 15 Changes to the Original 'Star Wars' Trilogy That Still Make Us Crazy; 10 Movie Mistakes That Slipped Through Editing; 7 real NASA technologies in sci-fi movie The Martian; �Star Wars, Episode IX�: Everything We Know (and Don�t Know); The 7 Biggest Problems With the Original �Star Wars� Trilogy;

Favorite Music Sites Does Music Give You Math Skills? It's a Tricky Equation; Some Artists Are Big in America, Some Internationally, and Some Are Taylor Swift; Music Publishing Economics; How music alters the teenage brain;

Fitness Scientists discovered the easiest way to boost your mood; 8 Bizarre Side Effects That Happen to Your Body during Exercise; Should you walk or run for exercise? Here's what the science says.; Why Being Active Matters for Cancer Prevention (and no, it�s not about weight loss; The Benefits of Physical Activity;

Graphing 14 Ways to Present Information Visually; How to Remove the Background of a Photo in Photoshop or PowerPoint; The art and science of the scatterplot; Play Around with Powerpoint 2010; The Content Marketer's Guide to Data Storytelling; 8 Creative Ways to Enhance Your Content Marketing With Visuals;

Health Care Information Surgeonratings.Org;
Surgeon Scorecard; Homeopathic Treatments: Do They Help or Harm?; Your safer-surgery survival guide - Our Ratings of 2,463 U.S. hospitals can help you find the right one;

Information Quality How People with Disabilities Use the Web: Overview; How to Evaluate Your Web Pages for Accessibility; 25 Ways To Make Your Website Accessible; Considering the User Perspective A Summary of Design Issues;

Kids Health How bullied children face long-term hits to mental health; Understanding and Addressing the Early Childhood Origins of �Mean� Behavior and Bullying: Resources for Practitioners;Bullies in the Block Area: The Early Childhood Origins of �Mean� Behavior;

Nutrition Resources Sugar Consumption at a crossroads; 9 GMO Ingredients to Avoid; Health Benefits of Quitting Soda and Diet Soda; 10 Things the Food Industry Doesn't Want You to Know; Actions of Caffeine in the Brain with Special Reference to Factors That Contribute to Its Widespread Use; This Is How Your Brain Becomes Addicted to Caffeine;7 Foods You Didn�t Know Were High in Sugar; The Corn (GMO) Syrup in Coke makes it Highly Damaging: It�s the Real (Unhealthy) Thing; The Scary Link Between Muscle-Building Supplements and Cancer; Amid debate over labeling GM foods, most Americans believe they�re unsafe; New GMO Controversy: Are the Herbicides Dangerous?; GMOs: Facts About Genetically Modified Food; GMO FACTS - Frequently Asked Questions; Nutrition 101 Infographic; 10 Tips Nutrition Education Series;25 Healthy Foods That Will Help You Lose Weight; Is diet soda really any better for you than regular soda? Will it help you lose weight?; Consumption of sugar sweetened beverages, artificially sweetened beverages, and fruit juice and incidence of type 2 diabetes: systematic review, meta-analysis, and estimation of population attributable fraction;Some Fruits & Vegetables Are Better For Your Waistline; The 5 Foods to Avoid If You Want a Six Pack;

Why 'Skinny Fat' Can Be Worse Than Obesity';Strategies to Prevent Obesity; Adult Obesity Facts; Obesity Prevalence Maps; Obesity Maps Put Racial Differences On Stark Display; The State of Obesity; The State of Obesity Report Series (2014- );

Public Health Data Behavioral Health Barometer United States, 2014; Sports and Health In America NPR.org/RWJ.org 6/2015; Demographic and Substance Use Trends Among Heroin Users � United States, 2002�2013; Alcohol-Impaired Driving Among Adults � United States, 2012; Alcohol Use and Binge Drinking Among Women of Childbearing Age � United States, 2011�2013;

Public Health Sites A - C Genetics: No more addictive personality; Neuroscience: Rewiring the brain;In Defense of the Disease Model of Addiction; New Section: Palcohol; Palcohol � a New Issue in Alcohol?; Drinking Highest Among Educated, Upper-Income Americans; A 10-year study points to something disturbing that happens to a lot of kids who are cool in high school; Sexual Risk Behavior: HIV, STD, & Teen Pregnancy Prevention; Cognitive Neuroscience Approaches to Understanding Behavior Change in Alcohol Use Disorder Treatments; 4 Words That Will Get Students to Stop Binge-Drinking;

Public Health Sites D-G Smoking Marijuana May Affect Weight Gain; 'Safer' Plastics Linked to Health Problems in Kids; Microwaving food in plastic linked to diabetes, other problems: study; Common chemicals may increase risk of hypertension and diabetes in children; Bisphenol S and F: A Systematic Review and Comparison of the Hormonal Activity of Bisphenol A Substitutes; Why �BPA-Free� May Be Meaningless; These Plastic Chemicals May Be Just As Dangerous As What They Replace; Synthetic Cannabinoid�Related Illnesses and Deaths; BPA: 7 Secret Sources; BPA for lunch? 6 kid-friendly canned foods that flunked test; BPA, phthalates linked to teen health woes in study; Phthalate exposure in pregnancy may increase preterm birth risk; Environmental contaminants phthalates linked to obesity in African-American children; New section: Phthalates; Chemical in plastics may affect boys' future fertility; Why More Women Are Turning to Heroin; Today�s Heroin Epidemic; 8 small things you do that people use to judge your personality; Mindfulness for Children; Short Trip? More People 'Microdosing' on Psychedelic Drugs;Marijuana May Be a Gateway Drug Only for Teens Who Have Certain Risk Factors; Overstepping Boundaries: The Danger of Invasive Species Video; New section:Earth Overshoot Day; We Just Entered the Red Earth Overshoot Day: We Just Entered the Red; New section: Extreme Heat; Extreme Heat from CDC; Ready.gov Extreme Heat; Extreme Heat Prevention Guide; How to Prepare for an Earthquake; Heroin use and heroin use risk behaviors among nonmedical users of prescription opioid pain relievers - United States, 2002-2004 and 2008-2010; Homophobic People Often Have Psychological Issues;Adolescent brain may be especially sensitive to new memories, social stress, and drug use;

Public Health Sites H-L Prevent Mosquito Bites; Outbreaks of Illness Associated with Recreational Water � United States, 2011�2012; New section: Ebola Sexual Transmission; Interim advice on the sexual transmission of the Ebola virus disease; Ebola: The Overlooked Sexually Transmitted Disease; Sexual Transmission of Ebola; Ebola can be transmitted sexually for weeks after recovery - education is crucial; For months after recovery, Ebola is essentially an STD; Survivors cope with new Ebola after-effects; Ebola Survivors need to use Condoms forever; Ebola Might Be Sexually Transmitted; It�s Possible That Ebola Can Be Sexually Transmitted; Ebola outbreak: sexual transmission drives abstinence and panic; Health Officials Issue New Guidelines on Sexually Transmitted Ebola; Signs Ebola Spreads in Sex Prompt a C.D.C. Warning; Everything to Know About Ebola and Sexual Intercourse; CDC Ebola guidance reflects concern over spread via sex; �Survivor man� spreads sexually transmitted Ebola�CDC emphasizing further research before virus makes comeback; Ebola Survivors Can Spread Disease Through Sex For Longer Than Previously Thought; Ebola Triggers Safe Sex Warnings After Virus Was Found In Man's Semen Months After Recovery; Ebola Virus Lives on in Male Survivors' Testicles, Can Be Sexually Transmitted; Ebola Virus Is Sexually Transmitted � WHO Warns; Liberia calls for sexual abstinence to cut Ebola transmission risk; 10 Deadly Diseases That Hopped Across Species; New section: Legionnaires' Disease: Legionellosis on the Rise: A Review of Guidelines for Prevention in the United States; Current Legionnaires� Disease Outbreak: What You Need to Know; Legionnaires� Disease Incidence and Risk Factors, New York, New York, USA, 2002�2011; Monitoring of Persons with Risk for Exposure to Ebola Virus Disease � United States, November 3, 2014�March 8, 2015; Monitoring Exposure to Ebola and Health of U.S. Military Personnel Deployed in Support of Ebola Control Efforts � Liberia, October 25, 2014�February 27, 2015;Care of a Neonate Born to a Mother who is Confirmed to have Ebola, is a Person under Investigation, or has been Exposed to Ebola; Plague Information; Besides Your Mother�s Scorn, Do Tattoos Have Side Effects?;Everybody Has A Tattoo, But Nobody Talks About The Side Effects;Human Plague � United States, 2015; The Black Death: the Plague that Sowed Terror and Death in Medieval Europe - Part 1; The Black Death: the Plague that Sowed Terror and Death in Medieval Europe - Part 2; Clinical Inquiries Received by CDC Regarding Suspected Ebola Virus Disease in Children � United States, July 9, 2014�January 4, 2015; Global Progress Toward Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome Control and Elimination � 2000�2014; Percentage of Adults with Selected Hearing Problems,* by Type of Problem and Age Group � National Health Interview Survey,� United States, 2014; How Shakespeare�s great escape from the plague changed theatre;

Public Health Sites M - N How Fast Does a Thought Travel?; The Science of Depression; Dealing with ADHD: What You Need to Know; This Is How Negative Emotions Cause Pain On Different Body Parts; Chronic Liver Disease and Hispanic Americans; Asthma and Hispanic Americans; Infant Mortality and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders; Infant Mortality and Hispanic Americans; Chronic Liver Disease and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders;How Can We Understand Health Equity Through Enhanced Data?;Barriers to Substance Use Disorder Treatment for Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders;More than half of Asian Americans with diabetes are undiagnosed; What It Feels Like To Have A Mental Breakdown; Why Your Memory Sucks: The Science of Remembering in the Internet Age;

Research Resources on the Net Creating a Survey? 7 Tips for Getting More Respondents; How to Know Whether to Believe a Health Study; Covering Medical Research. A Guide for Reporting on Studies; Fostering a Culture of Scientific Integrity: Legalistic vs. Scientific Virtue-Based Approaches; Coverage Error in Internet Surveys - Who Web-Only Surveys Miss and How That Affects Results;

How Sleep Clears the Brain; The sleep-deprived brain can mistake friends for foes; The Shocking News About How Sleep Impacts Your Health;The Best Sleep Position for Your Brain; Your Lack Of Sleep Is Probably Making You Sick; Lack of Sleep Dramatically Raises Your Risk For Getting Sick; School Start Times for Middle School and High School Students � United States, 2011�12 School Year; Your Body After a Night of Not-Enough Sleep; Too little sleep infographic; Seven or more hours of sleep per night: A health necessity for adults; What a Messed-Up Body Clock Can Do To Your Health;

Statistical Programs MS Excel 2013: 5 Hidden Features that everyone should know; Excel Tutorials;Learn Excel by Yourself: Tips, Resources, Tutorials; 50+ Best Free Excel Templates & Dashboards To Help You Get Ahead at the Office;

Consumers unclear about risks or benefits of e-cigarettes; Smokers� and ex-smokers� understanding of electronic cigarettes: a qualitative study;E-cigarettes and health � here's what the evidence actually says; E-cigarette usage surges in past year: Reuters/Ipsos poll; 5 Tips For Seniors Trying To Quit Smoking; CHEMICALS in tobacco may help trigger serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, a study suggests; New analysis of smoking and schizophrenia suggests causal link; STATE ESTIMATES OF ADOLESCENT CIGARETTE USE
AND PERCEPTIONS OF RISK OF SMOKING: 2012 AND 2013; State Tobacco Control Program Spending � United States, 2011; Teens using e-cigarettes may be more likely to start smoking tobacco; E-Cigarettes: The Facts; Knowns and Unknowns about e-Cigarettes and Teens; Teens More Likely to Follow Friends and Use E-Cigs; Current Cigarette Smoking Among Workers in Accommodation and Food Services � United States, 2011�2013; Current Cigarette Smoking Among Workers in Accommodation and Food Services � United States, 2011�2013; The end of smoking?; Behavioral Counseling and Pharmacotherapy Interventions for Tobacco Cessation in Adults, Including Pregnant Women: A Review of Reviews for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force; Behavioral and Pharmacotherapy Interventions for Tobacco Smoking Cessation in Adults, Including Pregnant Women: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement;

US Government &amp Other National Statistics Sites Share of counties where whites are a minority has doubled since 1980; Older Americans 2012 Key Indicators of Well-Being;Data360; 5 facts about America�s students;A Global Middle Class Is More Promise than Reality;The dangerous separation of the American upper middle class;

Useful Sites USA.gov Search Portal page; 19 Excellent Free Things to Do in Seattle; From Glaciers to Archipelagos: Places You Can Only Reach By Boat; Fotojet; The 10 Most Beautiful Beaches in the World; What do those numbered recycle symbols on plastic mean anyway?;
Top 30 Islands in the World: Readers' Choice Awards 2014; Passing Through the World's Most Magnificent Train Stations; The Most Scenic Islands in Italy;
10 Trips That Are Better for Solo Travelers; 10 Things You Didn't Know About Paris; The Most Bike-Friendly Cities in the World; 10 Common Mistakes Travelers Make in NYC; 8 Real-World Locations That Inspired Disney Movies; 11 Common Overseas Travel Scams and How to Avoid Them @Thrillist; The Definitive Guide to Removing 8 of the Most Common Clothing Stains; Air Travel Consumer Report; 2016 CDC Health Information for International Travel (commonly called the Yellow Book); 50 Things to Do in Europe Before You Die;

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Favorite Music Sites NASA's list of moon songs; Music listening habits tell about mental health; This Type of Music Can Help Reduce Stress; The Mozart effect; How Listening To Music Can Provide Insight When Trying To Solve A Problem; The Best Holiday Videos Ever!; 17 Colorful Facts About The Beatles' 'White Album;

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Healthcare Quality Issues MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL How the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally, 2014 Update;Technical Evaluation, Testing, and Validation of the Usability of Electronic Health Records: Empirically Based Use Cases for Validating Safety Enhanced Usability and Guidelines for Standardization; The Black/White Health Gap; Unequal treatment: what health care system administrators need to know about racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare; Dialogues on Diversifying Clinical Trials; Technical Evaluation, Testing, and Validation of the Usability of Electronic Health Records; Education and Community Support for Health Literacy; Measures of People's Skills and Experiences; Guidance and Standards; Why medicine costs so much in America;

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Women's Health Issues How to help a friend who is being abused; National Domestic Violence Hotline;U.S. Department of Justice - Domestic Violence Resource Page; Preventing Violence After a Natural Disaster; When It Comes To Domestic Violence, Boyfriends and Girlfriends Can Be More Deadly Than Spouses; SAFE Act Introduced to Protect Domestic Violence Survivors in the Workplace; Domestic Violence Coalitions Map search; The Evolution of the Perfect Female Body;

January - March 2016

Academic Resources Smoke Weed in College and Your Grades May Go to Pot; 5 Ways To Think Differently About Motivation When Setting 2016 Goals; Digital distraction in class is on the rise; Digital Distractions in the Classroom Part II: Student Classroom Use of Digital Devices for Non-class Related Purposes; Texting at night affects teens' sleep, academic performance; First-semester GPA a better predictor of college success than ACT score; GPA to letter grade conversion; The Real Reason Why Multitasking is Bad For You; Three Myths of Multitasking � And Why You Don�t Want To List It On Your Resume; Cognitive control in media multitaskers; The Myth Of Multitasking; This One Trick Could Make You More Productive at Work; Who Multitasks Best? Women, Of Course; Are you trying to be difficult?;

Biostatistics/Statistics Sites Watch how you handle big data, FTC warns businesses; Big Data: A Tool for Inclusion or Exclusion? Understanding the Issues (FTC Report); By 2018, Half of Business Ethics Violations Will Occur Through Improper Use of Big Data Analytics; Banks' use of big data to be scrutinized by EU regulators; How Companies Learn Your Secrets; Big data privacy must be fixed before the revolution can begin;The Big Data Dilemma Report;

Age-adjusted rate* of invasive cancer by cancer site and jurisdiction � National Program of Cancer Registries and Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program, 50 States, the District of Columbia (DC), and Puerto Rico (PR), 2012; How cancer will affect Americans in 2016 � in seven charts; Cancer riddle solved: How cancer cells form tumors; Does This Cause Cancer?; Cancer; Childhood Cancer Statistics; Chemotherapy; Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975�2012;

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Public Health Data New section:Health, United States Spotlight, Winter 2016; HIV-Related Risk Behaviors Among Male High School Students Who Had Sexual Contact with Males � 17 Large Urban School Districts, United States, 2009�2013; Occupational HIV Transmission Among Male Adult Film Performers � Multiple States, 2014; Cluster of HIV Infections Attributed to Unsafe Injection Practices � Cambodia, December 1, 2014�February 28, 2015;Lifetime Risk of HIV Diagnosis;

Public Health Data Increases in Drug and Opioid Overdose Deaths � United States, 2000�2014; Substance Use and Mental Health Estimates from the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health:
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Public Health Data 2010 Pregnancy Rates Among U.S. Women; Age-adjusted death rates for the 10 leading causes of death: United States, 2013 and 2014; Distinctive Causes of Death, by state; How You're Likely to Die, Statistically Speaking @weatherchannel; Mortality Trends Among Working-Age Whites: The Untold Story; Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies � United States, 2011�2013; Top Ten Leading Causes of Death and Injury;

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Public Health Sites D-G Smoke Weed in College and Your Grades May Go to Pot; FDA Revokes Use of Three Perfluorinated Chemicals; What Can Schools Do to Build Resilience in their Students?; Indirect Food Additives: Paper and Paperboard Components; Toxins found in fracking fluids and wastewater, study shows; Indirect Food Additives: Paper and Paperboard Components - Final Rule; The Precautionary Principle World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST); Precautionary Principle FAQs; The Madrid Statement on Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs); The Lawyer Who Became Dupont's Worst Nightmare; Being a woman versus being womanly: the implications after heart attack; Why Are So Many American Youth Abusing Adderall?; Lead Poisoning; Blood Lead Levels in Residents of Homes with Elevated Lead in Tap Water --- District of Columbia, 2004 MMWR 4/2004 Drinking Water Requirements for States and Public Water Systems; EPA.gov Lead; Lead and Copper Rule; Lead in Water; Toxic Substances Portal - Lead;Mixed emotions a sign of emotional depth, not indecision, say researchers; Tox Town: Lead; Tox Town: Drinking Water; HSDB: LEAD COMPOUNDS; NIH Lead Compounds;
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Public Health Sites H-L Flavorings-Related Lung Disease: Exposures to Flavoring Chemicals; Viral Hepatitis and
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Public Health Sites M - N What's the Difference Between the Right Brain and Left Brain?;Life's Extremes: Left- vs. Right-Handed; Left vs. Right: Battle in Brain Discovered;What Makes a Lefty: Myths and Mysteries Persist;Southpaw Stats: 11 Fun Facts About Lefties; Zoning out or deep thinking?; Brain can be trained to regulate negative emotions, study shows; Memory capacity of brain is 10 times more than previously thought; Performance Anxiety: The Part Of Your Brain That Makes You Stumble In Front Of An Audience; Language Learning: Strong Neural Connections Make It Easier To Learn A Second Language;Know These Pressure Points that Can Relieve Stress; 7 Ways Depression Differs in Men and Women; Therapy Types; Different approaches to psychotherapy; Explanation of theoretical approaches; Types of therapy; Types of Therapy; What goes wrong in the brain when someone can't spell; Is Depression Contagious?; Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression Can Be Contagious; Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study; Erectile Dysfunction Causes; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Antidepressants Equally Effective In Treating Major Depressive Disorder: ACP; Brain matter; Your Brain May Work Differently in Winter Than Summer; Men face higher risk of cancers linked to oral sex; 10 Scary Effects of Stress; Male Breast Cancer Treatment; Publications About Children and Adolescents; Adolescent Angst: 5 Facts About the Teen Brain; Want a younger brain? Stay in school -- and take the stairs - Education and physical activity can significantly slow down grey-matter aging;

Public Health Software GIS Snapshots; Causes of Death; How the world went from 170 million people to 7.3 billion, in one map;

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Senior Health What the average American gets in Social Security benefits;Skin Care and Aging;

Have Insomnia? Researchers Identify Brain Circuit Responsible For Wakefulness, Sleep; The Spooky Effects of Sleep Deprivation; 7 Strange Facts About Insomnia; Sleep Deprivation Makes for Ungrateful Partners; Your Definitive Guide to Beating the 7 Causes of Sleep Procrastination; Why night owls are more intelligent; Nap Time: Studies Show Afternoon Naps Help Improve Emotional Health, Memory; What Happens to Your Body When You Don�t Get Enough Sleep; Not Enough Zzzzs? Social Media Use Could Be Messing With Your Sleep; Zombieland? Tech Wrecking Sleep for Scores of Teens: Study;Study Finds Social Media Leads To Sleep Disturbance; Too much social media could mess up your sleep; Social Media And Sleep: Spending More Time Online Puts You At Hgher Risk Of Sleep Disturbance, Study Finds; Sleep Duration, Quality of Sleep, and Use of Sleep Medication, by Sex and Family Type, 2013-2014; How to Treat Insomnia: 10 Medication-Free Tips; New section: Sleep Apnea; Myths and Facts About Obstructive Sleep Apnea; Prevalence of Healthy Sleep Duration among Adults � United States, 2014; How dangerous is sleep deprivation, really?; The great American sleep recession; Study: A third of U.S. adults don't get enough sleep; Sleep Deprivation; Too little sleep may fuel insulin resistance; 11 Surprising Health Benefits of Sleep; How Much Sleep Do You Really Need?; Sleep deprivation spurs hunger; Lack of sleep may shrink your brain; Seven or more hours of sleep per night: A health necessity for adults; Recommended Amount of Sleep for a Healthy Adult: A Joint Consensus Statement of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research Society; Best to sleep on it: Brain activity patterns during sleep consolidate memory; Sleep-deprived America in five simple charts: The impact of marriage, education and work; Understanding the Side Effects of Sleeping Pills; Sleep is serious: Catch your Zzzs; Wake up to the need for more sleep; Tablet Use Before Bed Affects Sleep Quality; Study reveals Tablet Computers ruin your sleeping; What Time of the Day Does Productivity Peak? We Asked an Expert; Everything You Need to Know to Sleep Better Every Night; Short Sleep Increases Risk of Death & Over Long Sleep Can Indicate Serious Illness; Sleep Duration and All-Cause Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prospective Studies; Expert Reveals the Importance of Quality Sleep;

Statistical Functions The Methods Man: Interactions, Social and Statistical; Beware the Giraffes in Your Data;

Where we stand now: E-cigarettes; E-cigarette Ads and Youth; Smoking Hookah Pumps 2.5 Times The Nicotine Of A Conventional Cigarette Into Our Bodies; One Hookah Tobacco Smoking Session Delivers 25 Times The Tar Of A Single Cigarette; The Health Consequences of Smoking�50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General; The Health Consequences of Smoking�50 Years of Progress - A Report of the Surgeon General; Tobacco use among middle and high school students - United States, 2011-2014; Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults: A Report of the Surgeon General; Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs�2014;Nicotine and the Developing Human: A Neglected Element in the Electronic Cigarette Debate; A Randomized Trial of the Effect of E-cigarette TV Advertisements on Intentions to Use E-cigarettes; E-cigarette advertising expenditures in the U.S., 2011-2012; State laws prohibiting sales to minors and indoor use of electronic nicotine delivery systems--United States, November 2014;vaporized: majority of youth exposed to e-cigarette advertising;E-cigarette Ads and Youth;Alcohol in e-cigarettes can affect "vapers" study; Nicotine and the Developing Human: A Neglected Element in the Electronic Cigarette Debate; Pediatricians urge stronger regulation of tobacco, e-cigs; E-cigarettes don�t help you quit smoking, and may have the opposite effect, study claims; Who still smokes in the United States � in seven simple charts; E-Cigarettes: The Side Effects Nobody Talks About; Have national smoking bans worked in reducing harms in passive smoking?;Heart Health and Smoking; Exposure to Electronic Cigarette Advertising Among Middle School and High School Students � United States, 2014; Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems: Key Facts; Is Vaping Actually Better for You Than Smoking?; E-cigarette explodes in man's pocket; Don't even think about vaping on a plane; Cold turkey is best way to quit smoking, study says;

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New study finds users focus on concrete details rather than the big picture; Multitasking Test: You May Be Good, But Only A Few Are 'Supertaskers';
2 PERCENT OF PEOPLE CAN MULTITASK WELL. ARE YOU A SUPERTASKER?; Mulitasking And The Human Brain: Prefrontal Cortex Determines Concentration Level During Multiple Activities; How To Improve Your Memory And Concentration; How to Find Your Flow: A Simple Guide to Better Concentration & Higher Productivity [Infographic]; How to Learn Anything Faster; The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance; How To Remember Better: Working Out Four Hours After Studying May Help You Improve Your Memory; Ranking Your College, Where You Go and What You Make; College Scorecard Data;Memory-Boosting Trick: Exercise After Learning; Adolescent alcohol, marijuana use leads to poor academic performance, health problems; New section: Academic Performance; Genes Aren't Destiny: How Biology Impacts Academic Performance;

Annotated Great Books Bibliography
Daniel Levitin's This is Your Brain on Music; Scotty Bowers (with Lionel Friedberg)'s Full Service. My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars; Siddhartha Mukherjee's Thee Emperor of All Maladies; Rob Lowe's
Love Life; Henry Alford's Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That? A Modern Guide to Manners; Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat; David Lagercrantz's The Girl in the Spider's Web; Suzannah Cahalan's Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness; Melissa Rivers, Rivers, Melissa. (2015). The Book of Joan: Tales of Mirth, Mischief, and Manipulation;

Colorectal Cancer: What You Should Know; Cancer From Chemicals? 3 Household Products That Are Known Carcinogens; 3 Cancers Men Are More Likely to Get; Known and Probable Human Carcinogens; What You Need to Know About Colorectal Cancer; Diesel fumes increase risk of numerous cancers, research warns; Smog may boost risk for several cancers; Lung Cancer in Nonsmokers: Mystery Evolves Clues and speculation continue to emerge; Lung Cancer on the Rise in Nonsmokers � But Why? Rates in U.S. and U.K. doubled since 2008 without obvious clues; What is Cancer Overdiagnosis?;Cancer and Women; 15 Cancer Symptoms to Know; Cancer: How Beer, Bacon, and a Big Belly Put You at Risk; New section: Nutritional Aspects; News section: Stomach Cancer; Diet, nutrition, physical activity and stomach cancer; Alcohol, Processed Meats and Obesity Ups Stomach Cancer Risk; Alcohol Use and Cancer; 4 behaviors that may cut the risk of cancer by 30 percent; Cheat Sheet for Men�s Cancer Screenings and Good Health; Cheat Sheet for Women�s Cancer Screenings and Good Health;

QRISK�2-2016 risk calculator: http://qrisk.org; Shift work unwinds body clocks, leading to more severe strokes - Research finds living against our body clocks is detrimental to our health; Atrial Fibrillation;

Chinese Culture Diabetes Resources for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders; US Total Asian alone or in any combination population, 2014;

Spotlight on Connecticut: Impact of Unhealthy Behaviors; Permanent Commission on the Status of Women;

Cool Sites A- L The Human Fear of Total Knowledge; Why infinite libraries are treated skeptically in the annals of science fiction and fantasy; How the Tech in Your Car Is Making You a Bad Driver @Thrillist;

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about... Spring starts Sunday � 5 myths about the equinox, debunked; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; Matter: Definition & the Five States of Matter; The Psychology of Collecting; The leap second: Because our clocks are more accurate than the Earth; NASA National Technology Transfer Program - NASA Technologies Database; Mercury was a total mystery for centuries. We're finally learning its secrets; Top 10 cool things about stars; Goodbye to Night: 80 Percent of Humanity Lives Under Light Polluted Skies; Summer solstice 2016: Everything you need to know about the longest day of the year; Summer solstice 2016: When is the longest day of the year and why is it significant?;

Favorite Music Sites 25 Essential Prince Songs; Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Music Videos; Music might give babies' language skills a boost; Surrender to 60 minutes of timeless Cheap Trick cuts;Breaking the law not your thing? Here are 10 sites for free, legal music downloads; Neil Young�s 10 Best Songs of All Time; Psychology Of Music: How Sad Songs Inspire A Mix Of Pain And Pleasure And Evoke Memories; Why Do Songs Get Stuck in Your Head?; The Beatles� George Harrison: 10 of His Best Solo Songs;

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Health Education Resources US adults get failing grade in healthy lifestyle behavior; Traditional and Emerging Lifestyle Risk Behaviors and All-Cause Mortality in Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Evidence from a Large Population-Based Australian Cohort; Say "I Do" the Healthy Way;Transforming teaching with Twitter Social networking service helps teachers engage students in class and after; The Psychology Behind Irrational Decisions Has A Lot To Do With How You Manage Emotions;How the brain makes, and breaks, a habit - Neuroscience study identifies brain chemicals, neural pathway involved in switching between habitual behavior, deliberate decision-making; Impact of Unhealthy Behaviors; Impact of Unhealthy Behaviors Chartpack; 9 Interesting TED Talks on Breaking Bad Habits & Forming Better Ones;

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M - Z Travel-Associated Zika Virus Disease Cases Among U.S. Residents � United States, January 2015February 2016; Use of Vaccinia Virus Smallpox Vaccine in Laboratory and Health Care Personnel at Risk for Occupational Exposure to Orthopoxviruses � Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), 2015; Revision to CDC�s Zika Travel Notices: Minimal Likelihood for Mosquito-Borne Zika Virus Transmission at Elevations Above 2,000 Meters; PREGNANT? Read this before you travel (CDC infographic); New research further supports association between Zika virus, infection and microcephaly; On the Seasonal Occurrence and Abundance of the Zika Virus Vector Mosquito Aedes Aegypti in the Contiguous United States; Zika - Epidemiological Update 17 March 2016; Zika virus disease in the United States, 2015�2016; Zika virus vectors and risk of spread in the WHO European Region; Preventing Transmission of Zika Virus in Labor and Delivery Settings Through Implementation of Standard Precautions � United States, 2016;Interim Guidance for Management of Survivors of Ebola Virus Disease in U.S. Healthcare Settings; Zika Virus and You; Frequently Asked Questions on Screening for Ebola Virus Disease for Providers, Healthcare Facilities and Health Departments; Messages for the Care of Survivors of Ebola; Countries and territories showing historical distribution of Zika virus, 1947 - 2016; Zika: the origin and spread of a mosquito-borne virus; Dispelling rumours around Zika and microcephaly; Why Men Should Be Worried About the Zika Virus, Too; Rude Male Sperm Giving Zika to Women; Estimating Contraceptive Needs and Increasing Access to Contraception in Response to the Zika Virus Disease Outbreak � Puerto Rico, 2016; Zika virus in the Americas: Early epidemiological and genetic findings; Researchers Think They've Found The Zika Virus Patient Zero; 5 things the world has learned about Zika so far; Interim Guidance for Health Care Providers Caring for Women of Reproductive Age with Possible Zika Virus Exposure � United States, 2016;
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Evidence of Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus; CDC Confirms Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus Involved Two Men; Gay Men Can Catch Zika Virus Through Sex, Too, Officials Confirm; Sexual transmission of Zika seen between gay men for first time; In Babies With Microcephaly, Unique Damage Wreaked By Zika; Gay Men Are Vulnerable To Sexually Transmitted Zika Too; Report describes male-to-male Zika sexual transmission; Zika virus: Everything you need to know about the birth defects this disease can cause; Zika: everything we know about the virus; Patterns in Zika Virus Testing and Infection, by Report of Symptoms and Pregnancy Status � United States, January 3�March 5, 2016; Zika Virus and Birth Defects � Reviewing the Evidence for Causality; Zika Mutates Extremely Quickly, Which Is Why It�s So Scary; Zika Virus Mutation May Explain Spread: Study; The genetic evolution of Zika virus; Zika virus explained; UCLA scientists unravel the genetic evolution of Zika virus; New section: Yellow Fever; Zika virus impairs growth in human neurospheres and brain organoids; 10 ways to keep yourself safe from Zika, now definitively linked to birth defects; Why a yellow fever outbreak in Angola is a "potential threat for the entire world"; Yellow Fever Fact Sheet; Yellow fever: Questions and answers; Yellow fever epidemics: risk assessment; Viral complacency; What you need to know about yellow fever, the virus deadlier than Zika; Officials fear a spreading yellow fever outbreak could become the next pandemic; Fears rise over yellow fever�s next move; Yellow fever : a current threat; A 'Forgotten Disease' Is Suddenly Causing New Worries; Zika history: A timeline to a public health crisis; Another Reason To Fear Zika: Mosquito-Borne Virus Mutates Quickly; From Mosquitos to Humans: Genetic Evolution of Zika Virus; New scientific evidence of sexual transmission of the Zika virus; Tracking Zika�s Evolution; Zika Virus Sequence Analysis Reveals Structural Change to Key Viral Protein; Signs of yellow fever you should look out for; Mosquito-borne Diseases on the Uptick � Thanks to Global Warming; CDC Concludes Zika Causes Microcephaly and Other Birth Defects; Zika Virus Can Cause Brain Defects In Babies, CDC Confirms; Preliminary estimation of the basic reproduction number of Zika virus infection during Colombia epidemic, 2015�2016;Zika Is a Delayed Epidemic; ZIKA VIRUS MICROCEPHALY AND GUILLAIN-BARR� SYNDROME SITUATION REPORT 14 APRIL 2016; Explainer: what autoimmune disorder is newly linked to Zika?; Explainer: what is Guillain-Barr� syndrome and is it caused by the Zika virus?; Zika Seeks, Destroys Developing Neurons; NINDS Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis Information Page; Explainer: what is microcephaly and what is its relationship to Zika virus?; Map: Do you live in an area where Zika could strike?; Zika virus and pregnancy: What women need to know; Still many questions about Zika's threat to pregnant women; CDC confirms Zika virus causes microcephaly; Brain scans show full horror of Zika defects, Seattle expert says; All Countries and Territories with Active Zika Virus Transmission; Peru hands out condoms to visitors to curb sex-transmitted Zika virus; Research Shows Sexual Contact Can Spread The Zika Virus; Yellow fever; why timely vaccination is important; The Fight Against Yellow Fever Must Go On; Active Zika virus found in saliva and urine; The President's Malaria Initiative Tenth Annual Report to Congress | April 2016; Eliminating malaria April 2016;Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016�2030; The Sneak-Attack Mosquito;Simple Zika advice for women, from a top CDC official; Update: Ongoing Zika Virus Transmission � Puerto Rico, November 1, 2015�April 14, 2016; Zika Virus: How to Protect Yourself; The Other Zika Mosquito; Mosquito Control; The Sneak-Attack Mosquito; Vector-borne Transmission; Culex Mosquito; A common U.S. mosquito may transmit Zika virus, study says; Mosquito control: can it stop Zika at source?; Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Skuse): A Potential Vector of Zika Virus in Singapore; Spread of the Tiger: Global Risk of Invasion by the Mosquito Aedes albopictus; Types of Mosquitoes: Aedes, Anopheles, and Culex; 10 Zika Facts You Need to Know Now; Help Control Mosquitoes that Spread Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika Viruses; Zika virus may cause microcephaly by hijacking human immune molecule; Lab study reveals Zika damage mechanism in fetal brain; Interim Guidance for Protecting Workers from Occupational Exposure to Zika Virus; Interim Guidance for Zika Virus Testing of Urine � United States, 2016; Comparison of Test Results for Zika Virus RNA in Urine, Serum, and Saliva Specimens from Persons with Travel-Associated Zika Virus Disease � Florida, 2016; Zika threat pales next to 1964 rubella outbreak: Column; How The Zika Virus Damages The Brain; Fetal Brain Disruption Sequence; Report and review of the fetal brain disruption sequence; The Brazilian Zika virus strain causes birth defects in experimental models;
Zika Virus Disrupts Neural Progenitor Development and Leads to Microcephaly in Mice; Zika Virus Infection during Pregnancy in Mice Causes Placental Damage and Fetal Demise; A Stronger Link Between Zika and Birth Defects; Zika Virus Prevention Kits; Animal studies detail marked Zika damage in developing brains; Brazilian Researchers Find Evidence Zika Is Getting Worse; Yellow plague; An outbreak of yellow fever in Angola could go global; Zika virus and the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016; The History of Zika Virus;
Map of the Historical Spread of Zika; C.D.C. Investigating 14 New Reports of Zika Transmission Through Sex; Yellow plague - An outbreak of yellow fever in Angola could go global; Animals show how Zika harms fetuses;UCSD study explains how Zika attacks fetal brain; New section: Tick-Borne Diseases; Diagnosis and Management of Tickborne Rickettsial Diseases: Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Other Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses, Ehrlichioses, and Anaplasmosis � United States, A Practical Guide for Health Care and Public Health Professionals; New section: Polio; Progress Toward Polio Eradication � Worldwide, 2015�2016;Zika Virus: How to Protect Yourself; Fact and fiction in combating mosquitoes; Zika Virus Response Updates from FDA; 7 things that make mosquitoes bite you more; Middle East Respiratory Syndrome linked to higher mortality, more severe illness than non-MERS infection; Possible Zika Virus Infection Among Pregnant Women � United States and Territories, May 2016; How to Protect Yourself; Zika Prevention: What We Know; US Zika Pregnancy Registry; Zika and Blood Transfusion; Zika and Sexual Transmission; Tools for Healthcare Providers: Testing Algorithms, Fact Sheets, Etc; Questions and Answers for Healthcare Providers Caring for Pregnant Women and Women of Reproductive Age with Possible Zika Virus Exposure; Questions and Answers for Healthcare Providers Caring for Infants and Children with Possible Zika Virus Infection; Zika Virus Symptoms, Diagnosis, & Treatment;

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Disturbing Zika discovery stuns scientists; Zika found to spread within and pass through the placenta: new study; Interim Guidance for Interpretation of Zika Virus Antibody Test Results; Zika: What we know; Evidence of Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus; Zika May Be Transmitted by Oral Sex, Scientists Find; Zika Virus: Two Cases Suggest It Could Be Spread Through Sex; Zika Virus Might Also Spread Via Oral Sex: French Researchers; Gay Men Can Catch Zika Virus Through Sex, Too, Officials Confirm; Report Hints Zika Can Spread Through Oral Sex; Scientists Find Zika Might Be Transmitted by Oral Sex; Mysteries of the Zika Virus Stump Even the Experts; Study shows Zika virus directly infects brain cells and evades immune system detection; WHO Yellow Fever Situation Report; Zika virus directly infects brain cells and evades immune system detection, study shows; The History of Humanity�s Bloody War Against the Mosquito; Interim Guidance for Interpretation of Zika Virus Antibody Test Results; Mosquitoes Use 6 Needles To Suck Your Blood; Can we predict the next Ebola outbreak? Maps reveal global hotspots for where diseases pass from animals to humans; 5 ways to avoid mosquito bites; To Kill Mosquitoes That Spread Zika, Strike Before They Fly; Scientific sleuths hunt for Zika-carrying mosquitoes; Screening of Blood Donations for Zika Virus Infection � Puerto Rico, April 3�June 11, 2016; Zika's origin and global spread; Technical Statement on the Role of Disinsection in the Context of Zika Outbreaks, 2016; Zika: Which mosquito repellents really work?; Zika: CDC Draft Interim Response Plan; New section: Vector-borne Diseases; Vector Control Tools and Resources for Environmental Health Professionals; Vector Control / Integrated Pest Management (IPM); List of Possible Zika Birth Defects Grows Longer;

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Nutrition Resources Infection with Pathogens Transmitted Commonly Through Food and the Effect of Increasing Use of Culture-Independent Diagnostic Tests on Surveillance � Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, 10 U.S. Sites, 2012�2015; How Your Diet Affects Your Risk of Colon Polyps; Healthy or Harmful? Overdose Symptoms of 6 Supplements;How Breakfast Became a Thing; Listeria (Listeriosis); Red Meat Can Cause Cancer, Announces the WHO; Processed Meat and Cancer; A first look at the FDA�s new nutrition label � and 10 reasons it�s different from the old one; Food Labeling: Serving Sizes of Foods that Can Reasonably Be Consumed at One Eating Occasion; Dual-Column Labeling; Updating, Modifying, and Establishing Certain Reference Amounts Customarily Consumed; Serving Size for Breath Mints; and Technical Amendments; FDA modernizes Nutrition Facts label for packaged foods; Changes to the Nutrition Facts Label; 4 Surprising Health Benefits of Vitamin D;CRISPR gene-editing system unleashed on RNA;What Are Some Tips For People Struggling To Cut Most Of The Additional Sugar From Their Diet?; This Is What Saturated Fats Actually Do to Your Body @Thrillist; Whole grain consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and all cause and cause specific mortality: systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies; Rethink Your Drink; 70 Most Popular Sodas Ranked by How Toxic They Are;

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Public Health Data Trends in Attitudes About Marriage, Childbearing, and Sexual Behavior: United States, 2002, 2006�2010, and 2011�2013; Difference in Life Expectancy Between Females and Males at Birth and at Age 65 Years � National Vital Statistics System, United States, 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2014; 10 demographic trends that are shaping the U.S. and the world; Health, 2015, In Brief; Health, 2015; Rates of Prevalent HIV Infection, Prevalent Diagnoses, and New Diagnoses Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in US States, Metropolitan Statistical Areas, and Counties, 2012-2013; Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) Communication Resources Microsite; Health Care Use and HIV Testing of Males Aged 15�39 Years in Physicians� Offices � United States, 2009�2012;

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Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit - Updated 2016; Guides, Tutorials and Quick Tours to NIH.gov's Environmental Health and Toxicology Web site; Opioid Addiction Is a Huge Problem, but Pain Prescriptions Are Not the Cause; New section: Cell Phone Radiation; Does Cell Phone Use Cause Brain Cancer? What the New Study Means For You'; Government Study Finds Link Between Cell Phones and Cancer in Rats; Does Cell-Phone Radiation Cause Cancer?; Cell Phone Radiation Boosts Cancer Rates in Animals, $25 Million NTP Study Finds Brain Tumors - U.S. Government Expected To Advise Public of Health Risk; Power-Frequency EMFs Promote Cancer in Massive Animal Study'; Frequently Asked Questions about Cell Phones and Your Health; Hang up? Major US study finds link between cancer and cellphone radiation; CU Boulder study: Narcotic painkillers cause chronic pain; Opioid paradox: Could morphine use hurt as much as it helps by prolonging chronic pain?; 6 Ways To Control Your Emotions and Make Better Decisions; What we know about fentanyl, the powerful drug that killed Prince; New section: Benzodiazepines; Judicious Prescribing of Benzodiazepines; What is Mindfulness?; Mindfulness and the Case for Monotasking; A brief medical history of farting; Think Twice Before Microwaving That 'Microwave-Safe' Plastic @Thrillist; What Is Molly?; Prince Death News Update: Substance That Killed Singer Reportedly Makes A Lot Of Profit [VIDEO]; DEA warns: Fentanyl so dangerous that officers can die by mishandling drug; What Gay, Bisexual and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men Need to Know About Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Kratom: Natural painkiller or addictive drug?; New section: Kratom; BPA Bombshell: Industry Database Reveals 16,000 Foods with Toxic Chemical in Packaging; Why Europe may ban the most popular weed killer in the world;

Public Health Sites H-L Explainer: what is the immune system?; Hearing Impairment Among Noise-Exposed Workers � United States, 2003�2012; Hepatitis C linked to higher risk of head and neck cancers; A Tattoo for You? Seven Key Questions to Consider; Learn the ABCs of Viral Hepatitis; Identification and Clinical Management of Persons with Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection � Cherokee Nation, 2012�2015; Experts Say Texting Is Worse Than All Other Driving Distractions; What is Distracted Driving? Key Facts and Statistics; Don't Text And Drive! Experts Warn Texting Is The Worst Of All Driving Distractions; NHTSA Public Shaming On Twitter Will Call You Out If You're Texting And Driving; Why Texting Isn't Like Other Kinds of Distracted Driving; World Health Statistics 2016: Monitoring health for the SDGs; WHO 2016 Data Visualizations Dashboard; WHO Map Gallery; Hepatitis Risk Assessment;A deadlier drug: Doctors suspect W-18 is spiking overdoses; State Drug Use; The Unpredictable Nature of Today's Synthetic Drugs; The Drug Talk: 7 New Tips for Today's Parents; Synthetic Marijuana: The High Cost of a Cheap Drug; 3 New Dangerous Drug Habits in Teens;

Public Health Sites M - N Dependent Personality Disorder Symptoms; 6 Secret Signs of Hidden Depression; New section: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy; Images of Brain Injuries in Athletes; Prevalence and Characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorder Among Children Aged 8 Years � Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, 11 Sites, United States; 11 Warning Signs of a Depression Relapse; Climate Effects on Health; A Visual Guide to Concussions and Brain Injuries; Stress Management; Heads Up; CDC Concussion Microsite; Detecting and Treating Depression in Adults; Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder; Semantic Maps of the Brain; National and State-Specific Patterns of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Treatment Among Insured Children Aged 2�5 Years � United States, 2008�2014; ADHD in Young Children; ADHD Associated With Video Game Addiction; Cigarette Smoking and Prostate Cancer Mortality in Four US States, 1999�2010; Birth Cohort Testing for Hepatitis C Virus � Indian Health Service 2012�2015; Concussion Fact Sheets; Diabetes Resources for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders; Get Busy For Brain Health: A Packed Daily Schedule Linked To Better Cognitive Function In Old Age; Keep Busy! Stay Sharp!; Being Super Busy May* Be Good For Your Brain; Keeping Busy Boosts Brain Power; Mind your busyness; Being Busy Is Actually Better For Your Brain, Study Finds; The Busier the Better: Greater Busyness Is Associated with Better Cognition; Busy people age 50 and older have better brain function, research shows; Nine Tips to Help You Cope With Stress;The Science of Intuition: How to Measure 'Hunches' and 'Gut Feelings'; Brains Of Schizophrenia Patients Attempt To Self-Repair, MRI Scans Reveal;Why Do Guys Get Sleepy After Sex?; Genius: Can Anybody Be One?; Working Together? Male and Female Brains Just Aren't in Sync; Cheat Sheet for Men�s Cancer Screenings and Good Health; Men's Health Network; How Are Memories Stored in the Brain?;

Public Health Sites O-Z How HIPAA Applies to Certain Workplace Wellness Programs; Practice safer sex; OSHA�s Severe Injury Reporting Program; UNFPA, WHO and UNAIDS: Position statement on condoms and the prevention of HIV, other sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy; Worst Case Scenario: 5 Things That Can Happen When Your STD Goes Untreated; Increase in Suicide in the United States, 1999�2014; American Foundation for Suicide Prevention; If You Can't Smell Him, Can You Love Him?; Hazmap - Information on Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases; Preventing Multiple Forms of Violence; Vision &amp Eye Health Data &amp Maps; New section: Mycoplasma Genitalium; Surprise Surprise: 5 STDs You Probably Haven't Heard Of, But Should Know About; New STD? What You Should Know About Mycoplasma Genitalium; Epidemiology of Mycoplasma genitalium in British men and women aged 16�44 years: evidence from the third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-3); New section: Trichomoniasis; Trichomoniasis - CDC Fact Sheet; New section: Pubic lice; New section: Lymphogranuloma venereum; New section: Scabies; HPV and Men - Fact Sheet; The Persistent Myth About Oral Sex; Oral Sex and STIs; Oral Versus Vaginal Sex Among Adolescents: Perceptions, Attitudes, and Behavior; Syphilis on the Rise - What Went Wrong?; To stop losing the fight against syphilis, increase screening; Bisexual Men Have Higher Risks Of STDs, But Don't Do Much About It; Tackling A Neglected Group's Sexual Problems; Experts Say Gay Men, People With HIV Should Get Screened For Syphilis Even If Symptoms Aren't There; Seat Belt Use Among Adult Workers � 21 States, 2013; Transmission of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from a toilet seat; Teen Bullies And Their Victims Both Face A Higher Risk Of Suicide; Suicide and Suicide Attempts in Adolescents;

Research Resources on the Net Risks less likely to be reported by public-health researchers paid by industry or military; NFL, take note: Calls for retraction are usually a bad idea; N.F.L.�s Flawed Concussion Research and Ties to Tobacco Industry; Decoding the N.F.L. Database to Find 100 Missing Concussions;Don�t believe the biohype: Tips for evaluating claims about genetics and biotech; One Easy Way to Make Wikipedia Better; Failure to publish trial results exposes patients to risks without providing benefits; Web Form Design Best Practices: 5 Useful UI Patterns; 10 Practical Tips to Optimize Website Surveys That You Can Use Today; 17 Tools & Resources for Conducting Market Research; How to Prove a Therapy is Effective Even When its Not;

Senior Health What the average American gets in Social Security benefits;Skin Care and Aging; Anticholinergic Cognitive Burden Scale; Genetic Secrets to Youthful Looks Revealed; Redefining health, well-being in America's aging population - New approach looks at factors in addition to disease; The Real Secret of Youth Is Complexity; 5 Healthy Aging Tips for Women; Retirement Reality: 8 Charts You Need to See; Coping With Memory Loss;

Study reveals Tablet Computers ruin your sleeping; What Time of the Day Does Productivity Peak? We Asked an Expert; Everything You Need to Know to Sleep Better Every Night; Short Sleep Increases Risk of Death & Over Long Sleep Can Indicate Serious Illness; All That Multitasking Uses Up Brain Power; Making Women Need More Sleep Than Men; Sleep Duration and All-Cause Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prospective Studies; Expert Reveals the Importance of Quality Sleep; 6 Weird Ways Sleep Can Affect Your Health That Everyone Should Know About; Getting Too Little Sleep Can Have Major Health Implications as You Get Older; Study shows, Facebook threaten our sleeping quality; Why Interrupted Sleep Is Worse Than Short Sleep; This Is What Happens To Your Brain On No Sleep; How a Sleepless Night Affects Your Ability to Focus; Sleep Duration and Injury-Related Risk Behaviors Among High School Students � United States, 2007�2013; This Is What Teens Do When They Don�t Sleep; School Start Times for Adolescents; Evidence is mounting that teens should start school later. So why aren't they?;Study or Sleep? For Better Grades, Teens Should Go to Bed Early; Brains Scans Reveal How People with Insomnia May Be Wired Differently; Teen Sleep Habits; Sleep deprivation linked to depression in teens; Adolescent Sleep, School Start Times, and Teen Motor Vehicle Crashes; Your Guide to Healthy Sleep; How Cultural Pressures May Affect Your Sleep Habits; A lack of sleep can leave you 'functionally DRUNK', in a matter of days, experts warn; Fight Fire With Fire: Tech Tricks To Fight Technology-Driven Sleep Deprivation; 2009 SLEEP IN AMERICA POLL SUMMARY OF FINDINGS; How Sleep Loss Affects Your Heart; Why Do People 'Twitch' When Falling Asleep?; New sleep guidelines for babies, kids and teens; The real life nightmare of sleep paralysis; Electronic devices may keep teens from sleeping; Lack of regular bedtime may affect kids' learning skills; Procrastinators Beware: Insomnia Linked with Putting Things Off; Trouble Sleeping? Childhood Trauma And Abuse May Contribute To Insomnia In Adulthood;

Social Media Your friends have more friends than you do - Research uncovers the inherently hierarchical nature of social media; Career Networking Tips: Get Started on Twitter - Establishing an Online Presence on with Twitter Is Easy (and Necessary) -- Here's How; 6 Image Qualities That Drive Likes on Instagram; We Analyzed 7,712 Twitter Ads And Here�s What We Learned; Could lots of time spent on social media be tied to depression?; Heavy Facebook, Twitter users 3 times more likely to be depressed; If You Suspect Social Media Gives You the Sads... You're Right; Social Media Use Associated With Depression Among U.S. Young Adults; Depressed? Blame it on social media; How to Get More Followers, Fans, and Likes to Increase Your Social Reach; What to Post on Instagram: 18 Photo & Video Ideas to Spark Inspiration; Social media use associated with depression among US young adults; What an analysis of tweets reveals about safety and danger in America; Chances are you don�t remember what you just retweeted; I'm calling it: Social networking is over; Ultimate Guide to Social Media Competitive Analysis; A guide to emoji and social media; Sorry T. Swift, Science Says You Can Only Have 5 BFFs; Facebook to face privacy lawsuit over photo tagging; 8 Different Ways To Find Social Media Content; 5 Quick Tips To Use LinkedIn Like It�s 2016; How to Create Engaging Images for Social Media: A Simple Guide For Non-Designers; Observatory on Social Media, or "OSoMe"; 10 Hidden Snapchat Features You Didn't Know About,@Thrillist; Twitter location data can reveal users' home, work addresses - From location data alone, even low-tech snoopers can identify Twitter users' homes, workplaces; Pros & Cons: Should You Schedule Social Media Updates?; 17 Inspiring Instagram Video Examples From Oreo, Spotify, BuzzFeed & More; 10 of the Best Brands on Snapchat Right Now (And Why They're So Great); How the News Feed Algorithms Work on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram; 12 Good Reasons to Unfollow Someone on Social Media; Twitter says goodbye to all �.@�; There�s a mathematical reason you�re less popular than your friends; Under Pressure: New Moms Who Post Tons Of Baby Pictures On Facebook More Likely To Have Symptoms Of Depression; Social Media Can Help Us Spot College Students With Potential For Drinking Problems; Annual CareerBuilder Social Media Recruitment Survey; Can Social Media Really Help (Rather Than Hinder) Your Chances of Landing a Job?; The Teenage Brain On Social Media: Facebook And Instagram 'Likes' Trigger Same Reward System As Eating Chocolate; Best Twitter Tips &amp Tricks to Manage Your Account; How to Write Good Instagram Captions: 8 Tips for Perfecting Your Copy; 7 New Twitter Features You May Have Missed; What Facebook Addiction Looks Like in the Brain; Top 10 Golden Rules of Facebook; Dislike: Facebook May Hurt Women's Body Image; No More FOMO: Fear of Missing Out Linked to Dissatisfaction; How To Find The Best Time To Tweet Using Twitter Analytics; 48 Instagram Stats That'll Help You Improve Your Posting Strategy; How to Hack Someones Facebook Account Just by Knowing their Phone Numbers; Here�s How To Show Tweet Counts on Your Website; 6 in 10 of you will share this link without reading it, a new, depressing study says; Study finds people don�t read the majority of news they share on Twitter; Social Clicks: What and Who Gets Read on Twitter?;

Statistical Functions Beware the Giraffes in Your Data; How the Average Triumphed Over the Median; The Cost Of Bad Data; Data Literacy Will Make You Invincible; Ten simple rules to use statistics effectively;

Statistical Programs Where to Learn Excel: The 10 Best Resources on the Internet; 11 Excel tips for power users;

E-cigarette explodes in man's pocket; Don't even think about vaping on a plane; Cold turkey is best way to quit smoking, study says; Three men suffer serious burns from e-cigarette battery fires; Is Vaping Bad For You? Here Are the Negative Health Effects of Smoking From a Vape; E-Cigarettes 101; E-cigarettes and Lung Health; New Study Shows How People Who Vape May Be Making Themselves Sick; Tobacco Use Among Middle and High School Students � United States, 2011�2015; E-cigarettes and health � here's what the evidence actually says; FDA takes significant steps to protect Americans from dangers of tobacco through new regulation; Why we need new rules on e-cigs; Nicotine Poisoning; Teen Who Use E-Cigarettes More Likely to Try Tobacco use of e-cigarettes predicts later smoking in teens; E-cigarette poisonings in kids skyrocket, study finds; E-cigarette poisonings skyrocket among young kids; E-Cigarette Poisonings Surge in Young Children, Study Says; Pediatric Exposure to E-Cigarettes, Nicotine, and Tobacco Products in the United States; Healthcare costs nosedive when smokers quit; E-Cigarettes: What Vaping Does to Your Body; Deadly Explosions Added to List of E-Cigarette Dangers; Man killed as e-cigarette 'explodes', Merseyside fire service says; What's Causing E-Cigs' Trail of Injuries?; U.S. Fire Administration - Electronic Cigarette Fires and Explosions; Vaping teens more apt to move on to regular cigarettes: U.S. study; E-Cigarettes and Future Cigarette Use; What science says about e-cigarettes; Electronic Cigarette Use Among Working Adults � United States, 2014; Smoking Cessation* During Pregnancy � 46 States and the District of Columbia, 2014; The Facts on the FDA's New Tobacco Rule; Smokers may try to quit 30 times before it sticks; Vapers and Smokers Have Similar Airway Gene Alterations - E-cigarette users show decreased expression of immune-related genes; Do you know what you're smoking? Research suggests that you don't;

US Government Statistics WISQARS widgets; Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2015; The Average 29-Year-Old; LABOR MARKET ACTIVITY, EDUCATION, AND PARTNER STATUS AMONG AMERICA'S YOUNG ADULTS AT 29: RESULTS FROM A LONGITUDINAL SURVEY; US 2014 Population, by Race &amp Ethnicity; Origins and Destinations of the World�s Migrants, from 1990-2015;Bureau of Justice Statistics; BJS Key Statistics; Which Labor Market Data Should You Believe?;

Useful Sites What to Do If You're Abroad During an Attack; How Terrorism Affects Tourism; The Most Underrated Place in Every State,@Thrillist; Travel Tips: The Best Thing I Learned From Traveling Abroad; Moral Dilemmas: Should You Do These Things While Traveling?; Ten Iconic American Road Trips;Height Conversion Table Feet (ft), Inches (in) / Centimeters (cm); Breaking Down the Pickpocket Scheme; 9 Secrets Only Hotel Workers Know;

Web Resources 17 ways the Internet of Things can go horribly wrong; Privacy and Information Sharing; The dirty dozen: 12 cloud security threats; How to write the perfect tweet for your career; The ultimate 2016 email marketing benchmark guide; The Ultimate Google Analytics Glossary; The 7 biggest myths about artificial intelligence; New section: Remote Hacking; Motor Vehicles Increasingly Vulnerable to Remote Exploits; FBI &amp NHTSA say car hacking is real, offer tips to keep you safe; FTC reads the riot act to Android developers building apps that can spy on users' television habits; SilverPush Says It�s Using �Audio Beacons� For An Unusual Approach To Cross-Device Ad Targeting; FTC Issues Warning Letters to App Developers Using �Silverpush� Code; FTC Staff Report Recommends Ways to Improve Mobile Privacy Disclosures; Mobile App Developers: Start with Security; Mobile Privacy Disclosures FTC Staff Report | February 2013 - Building Trust Through Transparency; Mobile Technology Issues; SilverPush �Redefining TV advertising� is simply spying on users - FTC; 50 Catchy Headline Formulas That You Can Use on Your Blog (With Examples); 5 things you need to know about SSL; Shodan: The IoT search engine for watching sleeping kids and bedroom antics; How one hacker exposed thousands of insecure desktops that anyone can remotely view; 5 IoT trends to expect in 2016; What�s trending in the IoT space; The dangers of virtual reality; Millions of routers vulnerable to hack attack - Is yours?; Inside the garage labs of DIY gene hackers, whose hobby may terrify you; 6 Potential Dangers of Virtual Reality; Unplug! Too Much Light at Night May Lead to Depression;ICIT Ransomware Report; How to respond to ransomware threats; 4 reasons not to pay up in a ransomware attack; Pearson Student Mobile Device Survey 2015; How credit card fraud in the US supports Russia's underground economy; Ransomware and Recent Variants; Securing Hospitals; Out-of-date apps put three million servers at risk of ransomware; Hackers need only your cell number to eavesdrop on your phone; Internet of Things: �Connected� Does Not Equal �Smart�; Criminals in the cloud: How malware-as-a-service is becoming the tool of choice for crooks; Why the Internet of Things is the next target for ransomware; 7 Ways Google Analytics can Measure the Results of your Content; The Beginner�s Guide to Mobile App Analytics; 15 iPhone Hacks to Save Your Battery's Life,@Thrillist; 5 updated questions to ask your data analytics provider; 6 ways to boost engagement with your Instagram content; Content marketing tips: How to promote your blog posts on social;Smartphone Spying Reality Check; It's not just smart TVs. Your home is full of gadgets that spy on you: How internet giants are collecting your personal data through their high-tech devices; It's not just smart TVs. Your home is full of gadgets that spy on you: How internet giants are collecting your personal data through their high-tech devices; People will turn their smartphones into spying devices for just $5/month; How to Stop Your Smart TV From Spying on You; New section: Smartphone Addiction; Poll: 50% Of Teens Feel Addicted To Their Cell Phones; Teens say they�re addicted to technology. Here�s how parents can help;
New Report Finds Teens Feel Addicted to Their Phones, Causing Tension at Home; Half of teens think they're addicted to their smartphones; No New Friends: Our Brains Only Have Capacity For 5 Best Friends And About 150 Social Relationships; Researchers nab millions of stolen credentials for Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Banking;AI will destroy entry-level jobs - but lead to a basic income for all; How Putting Away Your Smart Phone Can Help Your Mind; 6 Ways Phones and Tablets Affect Your Health (Slideshow); Rethinking security for the Internet of Things; Data scientists launch free tools to analyze online trends, memes - Web-based software provides journalists, researchers and public direct access to sophisticated meme-tracking algorithms; 12 Unexpected Symptoms of Phone Addiction; What Is the Microsoft .NET Framework, and Why Is It Installed on My PC?; How much RAM does your PC really need?;How to Identify Dark Traffic on Analytics; Top 5 Most Useful Reports in Google Analytics; Greater social media use tied to higher risk of eating, body image concerns; Ransomware: How high will the demands go?; Report: Security and Privacy Fears Can Affect Internet Use; Lack of Trust in Internet Privacy and Security May Deter Economic and Other Online Activities; Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World: A Framework for Protecting Privacy and Promoting Innovation in the Global Digital Economy; This dark side of the Internet is costing young people their jobs and social lives; Top Websites Using Audio Fingerprinting to Secretly Track Web Users; Here's How Websites Are Tracking You Online; Six billion connected devices by next year: the Internet of Things takes shape; Asking 'Why?' will define the Internet of Things 2.0; Malware goes to war: Potential tools, uses, and targets of cyberweapons; Faception can allegedly tell if you're a terrorist just by analyzing your face; It's 2016 and we don't know who has our personal data;The real reason America controls its nukes with ancient floppy disks; Who�s afraid of the IoT?; All the Creepy Ways People Are Stalking You Online @Thrillist; Internet of Things: Five truths you need to know to succeed; U.S. gets warnings and advice about the Internet of Things; More "mega breaches" to come, as rival hackers vie for sales; �Net neutrality� rules for fair internet access win in court; Cost of a data breach: $4M: Benefits of responding quickly: Priceless.; 'Net neutrality' explained: what this week's US court decision means; Could the Internet Ever Be Destroyed?;Can Selfies Give You Wrinkles?; The FAA Just Released Its New Drone Rule Book; Operation and Certification of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems; Docs Diagnose Smartphone 'Blindness' in 2 Women; 5 Odd Ways Your Tech Devices May Injure You; 9 Odd Ways Your Tech Devices May Injure You; Smartphone use in the dark linked to temporary blindness in 2 cases;

Women's Health 2014 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report CHARTBOOK ON WOMEN�S HEALTH CARE; Motherhood in the U.S., as told by the (grim) numbers; Women in Clinical Trials; Women's long work hours linked to alarming increases in cancer, heart disease;

Women's Health Issues APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls; How Kim Kardashian�s Naked Selfie �Movement� Is Hurting Girls; Preventing Multiple Forms of Violence: A Strategic Vision for Connecting the Dots; Sexual Assault Can Happen in Relationships, Too; Sexual Violence: Prevention Strategies; Maternal Depression; Depression Among Women; STOP SV: A Technical Package to Prevent Sexual Violence; How to Use The Chronicle�s Title IX Tracker, and What We�ve Learned; Chronicle�s Title IX Tracker; What a massive sexual assault survey found at 27 top U.S. universities; A shocking number of college men surveyed admit coercing a partner into sex; Report on the AAU Campus Climate Survey on Sexual
Assault and Sexual Misconduct; Statement of a Sexually Assaulted Woman;

Writing 10 Very Costly Typos; The Ghostwriting Business; How to Write Subheads that Hook (and Re-hook) Your Readers; 23 Amazing 5-Minute SEO Copywriting Tips To Try Right Now; New section: Linguistics; Language study reveals best words to use when selling products; Everything a Blog Post Needs for Ideal SEO; Now Includes Blogging; 37 Proven Methods To Increase Blog Traffic And Boost Engagement; How to Write a Marketing Email: 10 Tips for Writing Compelling Email Copy; Now includes E-mail and E-reader sections; Email Language that Works: 5 Subject Line Tricks; 7 Types of Blog Posts That Earn The Most Inbound Links; How to Write a Cover Letter That Gets You the Job [Template + Examples]; How to Write a Blog Post: A Simple Formula + 5 Free Blog Post Templates; How to Write a Press Release [Free Press Release Template + Example]; How to Train Your Brain to Write More Concisely: 6 Creative Exercises to Try; Open access: All human knowledge is there�so why can�t everybody access it?;

Career Resources NUMBER OF JOBS HELD, LABOR MARKET ACTIVITY, AND EARNINGS GROWTH AMONG THE YOUNGEST BABY BOOMERS: RESULTS FROM A LONGITUDINAL SURVEY;The Work-Life Imbalance Report; 7 Jobs You�ll Never Get Without a Master�s Degree; 5 New Jobs Skills Employers Are Looking For in 2016; 13 Valuable Skills You Can Teach Yourself for Free; LABOR MARKET ACTIVITY, EDUCATION, AND PARTNER STATUS AMONG AMERICA'S YOUNG ADULTS AT 29: RESULTS FROM A LONGITUDINAL SURVEY;What Analytics Training do I need?; This is the Worst Lie You Can Put On Your Resume; Applying for Entry-Level Jobs? 6 Things Your Resume Needs; Skills You Need To Become A Data Scientist And Step by Step Guide For Professionals At All Levels; Launch My Career Colorado!

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Academic Resources On Purpose: How Mindfulness Helps You Work With Intention; Genetics play role in character traits related to academic success; Dropping your kids off at college? Here�s the best advice to give them; Tips for College Health and Safety; Cognitive offloading: How the Internet is increasingly taking over human memory;Sleep makes relearning faster and longer-lasting; These Science-Backed Study Tips Help You Learn Faster, Remember Longer; 9 Ways Going to College Affects Your Health; Will You Make More Money If You Attend a Top-Tier School?; 11 Tips to Lower Stress; A meta-analysis of weight gain in first year university students: is freshman 15 a myth?; A meta-analysis of weight gain in first year university students: is freshman 15 a myth?; Drinking to belong: The effect of a friendship threat and self-esteem on college student drinking; How to Stay Healthy When Your Roommate Is Sick; What learning cursive does for your brain; Your Lousy Handwriting Might Actually Make You Smarter; We All Speed-Read; Your Grossest, Most Shameful College Habits, Revealed to Doctors @Thrillist; Studying: Is it bad for your health to pull an all-nighter?;

1999�2013 Cancer Incidence and Mortality Data; U.S. Cancer Statistics: An Interactive Cancer Atlas; 2013* State Cancer Facts; Good indicator of cancer prognosis turned on its head by new research; Molecule thought to indicate good cancer prognosis not always good; Elevated bladder cancer risk in New England and arsenic in drinking water from private wells; 7 Deadly Types of Cancer Directly Linked to Alcohol Consumption; New Report Links Obesity, Alcohol to Esophageal Cancers; More Evidence of Exercise for Cancer Prevention; Immunotherapy: Harnessing Your Body's Own Defenses; Cancer in Los Angeles County, Trends by Race/Ethnicity 1976-2012; Cancer is now the leading cause of death in 22 states. Surprisingly, that�s good news; 10 Jobs That Put You at a Higher Risk of Cancer; What Causes Cancer? Sugar May Be The Root Of Tumor Growth; Here's How Sugar Might Fuel the Growth of Cancer;

State and Regional Prevalence of Diagnosed Multiple Chronic Conditions Among Adults Aged ≥18 Years � United States, 2014; How You Will Die; Years You Have Left to Live, Probably;

12 Clues You Might Have Heart Disease; Long Periods of Sitting Take Toll on the Heart - Small increased risk seen with 10+ hours of sedentary time per day; Cardiovascular Health Status by Occupational Group � 21 States, 2013;Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Cardiovascular Disease: An Updated Systematic Review; Surprising Things That Hurt Your Heart; Blood Pressure Control; Memory of a heart attack is stored in our genes;

Consumer Health Preventing and Managing Summer-related Health Conditions; Stay Safe This Summer!;What to Do About 14 Common Aches and Pains; Bad Bugs Slideshow: Identifying Bugs and Their Bites; Outsmarting Poison Ivy and Other Poisonous Plants; 5 Signs that a River or Lake is Not Safe to Swim In; FDA Medication Health Fraud;

Cool Sites A- L How to Take Envy-Worthy Travel Photos; Researchers say nearly all books follow one of these six emotional arcs; Why Are Some People Better at Drawing than Others?; Night Sky Photography; Egg And Nest Identification; From DSLR to mirrorless and compact, here�s how to choose a digital camera; Which Cars Cost the Most (and Least) to Maintain As They Get Old?; Those Who Read Books Live Longer Than Those Who Don�t, Study Finds; How to Take Your Own Professional Headshot: A Budget-Friendly Guide; A chapter a day: Association of book reading with longevity;A chapter a day: Association of book reading with longevity (article); Mental distraction of Car Voice-Activated Systems; What Is Shakespeare�s Most Popular Play?;

The Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) Test for Diabetes; Preventing type 2 diabetes: When genes fail to respond; World Diabetes Report; Diabetes Fact Sheet; Basics About Diabetes; Working to Reverse the US Epidemic At A Glance 2016;

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about... Jupiter and Its Moons; What we know about Jupiter; Titan: Facts About Saturn's Largest Moon; Why bad ideas refuse to die; D-PLACE: Database of Places, Language, Culture and Environment; EPIC:Earth; This square isn�t actually rotating. Here�s why; A Brief History of Trial by Combat;

Evidence-Based Practice; Barnacle gosling�s terrifying cliff tumble; NASA releases new video showi;ng the globe age one year; 10 Mysterious Deaths and Disappearances That Still Puzzle Historians;Rio 2016 visualized: The Olympics in charts and graphics; Ventusky.com; 10 Mysterious Deaths and Disappearances That Still Puzzle Historians; 14 Strangest Sights on Google Earth; 7 Bizarre Ancient Cultures That History Forgot; Mohs Hardness Scale; Why We Don�t Know If It Will Be Sunny Next Month But We Know It�ll Be Hot All Year; Year�s fastest sunsets around equinoxes; Day and night exactly equal at equinoxes?

Favorite Movie Sites Tangled: Count Up to 50th Animated Motion Picture; Documentary Heaven; Fascinating Stop-Motion Film Reveals All the Animation Gear You Never See; 11 Of The Best World War II Films;

Favorite Music Sites CRACK A COLD ONE AND TURN UP THIS 45-SONG SALUTE TO AMERICA; Why do we tap our feet to a musical beat?; Why we like the music we do - Musical tastes are cultural in origin, not hardwired in the brain, study suggests; The Beatles Revolver at 50 - 14 awesome facts about the classic album;

Fitness Associations of mutually exclusive categories of physical activity and sedentary time with markers of cardiometabolic health in English adults: a cross-sectional analysis of the Health Survey for England; Physical Activity Weakens Dangers of Prolonged Sitting - Confirmation for the risks associated with sedentary lifestyle, and the benefits of exercise;How much physical activity do adults need?; Additional Considerations for Some Adults; Olympic Form: How Sports Influence Body Shape; Olympic Bod Infographic; We Are Nowhere Close to the Limits of Athletic Performance; Office Olympics - Workday Workouts; Rio 2016 visualized: The Olympics in charts and graphics; Exercise and Weight Loss: The Science of Preserving Muscle Mass;

Graphing How to Pick the Perfect Color Combination for Your Data Visualization; Chart and image gallery: 30+ free tools for data visualization and analysis; When Did Charts Become Popular?;

Healthcare Quality Issues The most expensive body parts to get repaired, according to medical billing data; Appropriate Use of Medical Resources; Crisis Sta​ndards of Care;

A - L Global Emergence of Invasive Infections Caused by the Multidrug-Resistant Yeast Candida auris;Overview, Control Strategies, and Lessons Learned in the CDC Response to the 2014�2016 Ebola Epidemic; Legionnaires� Disease Resources for Environmental Health Professionals; Preventing Legionnaires� Disease: Environmental Health Expertise Is Key; Spatial epidemiology of Ebola virus disease | Viz Hub; History credits this man with discovering Ebola on his own. History is wrong; Ebola Lives On in Survivors� Eyeballs and Testicles; Overview, Control Strategies, and Lessons Learned in the CDC Response to the 2014�2016 Ebola Epidemic; CDC�s Response to the 2014�2016 Ebola Epidemic � West Africa and United States (MMWR Summary Report); CDC�s Response to the 2014�2016 Ebola Epidemic � West Africa and United States Links Webpage; New section: Antmicrobials; Safety and Effectiveness of Consumer Antiseptics; Topical Antimicrobial Drug Products for Over-the-Counter Human Use; Antibacterial Soaps Have Phased Out Controversial Ingredients, But Concerns Remain About New Ones; FDA-Banned Chemicals graphic; Tracking mcr-1; Implementation of a National Semen Testing and Counseling Program for Male Ebola Survivors � Liberia, 2015�2016;

M - Z The Danger of a Third-Trimester Zika Infection; Can you get Zika twice? Or are you immune?; Doing the math on Zika and sex; Zika Virus May Affect Infants Even Without Microcephaly and Cause Tissue Death, Studies Find; Zika virus identified in brain, placenta tissue, strengthening link to birth defects; Screening of Blood Donations for Zika Virus Infection � Puerto Rico, April 3�June 11, 2016;New Insights Into How Zika Harms the Brain; Countries and territories showing historical distribution of Zika virus, 1947 - 2016; Cumulative Zika Cases; Projected Zika Virus Importation and Subsequent Ongoing Transmission after Travel to the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games � Country-Specific Assessment, July 2016; Block the Buzzing, Bites, and Bumps - Preventing Mosquito-Borne Illnesses; Suspected Female-to-Male Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus � New York City, 2016; AI Reveals Undiscovered Bat Carriers of Ebola, Other Filoviruses; What Zika means for you: Assess your risk; New Zika section: Other Types of Transmission; This Flowchart Explains Whether Or Not You Should Get A Zika Test; Elderly Zika patient in Utah may have infected a family contact; A Case Of Zika Apparently Spread From A Patient To A Family Caregiver; CDC reports �surprising� but rare ways to catch Zika in the US;Ongoing Zika Virus Transmission � Puerto Rico, November 1, 2015�July 7, 2016; CDC assisting Utah investigation of Zika virus infection apparently not linked to travel; First female-to-male sexual transmission of Zika virus infection reported in New York City; Is There a New Way to Get Zika?; A mysterious case of Zika raises new fears of person-to-person transmission; Confronting a Lingering Question About Zika: How It Enters the Womb; Strange New Case Might Change What We Know About Zika; How Zika Breaks Into the Brain; Mosquito borne diseases; Zika virus: Scientists map mom to fetus transmission in 1st detailed explanation; Here�s what Zika virus symptoms look like in pregnant women; What Parents Should Know about Zika; New section: Zika Congenital Syndrome; PAHO/WHO updates the characterization of Zika Congenital Syndrome; Why women and babies in the South and Southwest are at risk from Zika; All the reported cases of Zika in the United States; What you need to know about the Zika virus; CDC Issues Updated Zika Recommendations: Interim Guidance for healthcare providers caring for pregnant women with possible exposure to Zika virus; Interim Guidance for the prevention of sexually transmitted Zika virus; Women & Their Partners Who are Thinking about Pregnancy; CDC Zika Communication Resources; Update: Interim Guidance for Prevention of Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus � United States, July 2016; Update: Interim Guidance for Health Care Providers Caring for Pregnant Women with Possible Zika Virus Exposure � United States, July 2016; Projected Zika Virus Importation and Subsequent Ongoing Transmission after Travel to the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games � Country-Specific Assessment, July 2016; Florida investigation links four recent Zika cases to local mosquito-borne virus transmission; 10 Deadly Diseases That Hopped Across Species; Five Enduring Questions About Zika; Vector-Borne Disease Emergence and Resurgence; ESTIMATED range of Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti in the United States, 2016*; Advice for people living in or traveling to Wynwood, a neighborhood in Miami, FL 8/1/2016;Prevent Mosquito Bites;Zika Training for Healthcare Providers;Zika Virus Facts And Myths: 9 Things To Know About Symptoms, Treatment And Transmission; How to Protect Yourself Against the Zika Virus; Contraceptive Use Among Nonpregnant and Postpartum Women at Risk for Unintended Pregnancy, and Female High School Students, in the Context of Zika Preparedness � United States, 2011�2013 and 2015; Zika in the United States, explained in 9 maps; Zika Virus: Information for Clinicians; New section: Congenital Zika Syndrome; Congenital Zika syndrome with arthrogryposis: retrospective case series study; Zika virus could be linked with 'whole spectrum' of disorders; Zika linked to baby joint deformities; Is Zika Contagious? Facts And Myths About How It Spreads; Zika Early Symptoms 2016: Warning Signs That You're Infected And What To Do; How Zika Virus Attacks The Body And What Happens After Infection: Everything You Need To Know, Watch For; Zika Infection Risks 2016: 3 Ways The Virus Can Be Transmitted And What We Still Don't Know; Updated Interim Zika Clinical Guidance for Pregnant Women and Data on Contraceptive Use to Decrease Zika-affected Pregnancies; PERSISTENT DETECTION OF ZIKA VIRUS RNA IN SEMEN FOR SIX MONTHS AFTER SYMPTOM ONSET IN A TRAVELLER RETURNING FROM HAITI TO ITALY, FEBRUARY 2016; Why Aedes aegypti are so good at transmitting Zika, and other FAQs; Clinical Practice Guidelines Published for Treatment of Drug-Susceptible Tuberculosis; TB Guidelines; Update: Interim Guidance for the Evaluation and Management of Infants with Possible Congenital Zika Virus Infection � United States, August 2016; Yellow fever in Angola and the DRC: a stark warning from an old enemy; New section: Sepsis; CDC's Sepsis page; Epidemiology of Sepsis: Prevalence of Health Care Factors and Opportunities for Prevention; Making Health Care Safer; Sepsis infographic; Likely Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus from a Man with No Symptoms of Infection � Maryland, 2016; Guillain-Barr� Syndrome During Ongoing Zika Virus Transmission � Puerto Rico, January 1�July 31, 2016; Norovirus in Healthcare Settings; Norovirus US trends; FDA advises testing for Zika virus in all donated blood and blood components in the US; Zika virus in the female genital tract; New section: Sensory Polyneuropathy; Acute virus infection associated with sensory polyneuropathy, Zika experts say; Scientists report new neurological complication from Zika virus infection;
New study finds acute Zika virus infection can damage nerves; Yellow Fever Timeline: The History Of A Long Misunderstood Disease; Key Zika Considerations for Healthcare Settings; Key Messages�Zika Virus; Zika Virus Information for Healthcare Providers; Resources and Guidance for Healthcare Providers Caring for Infants Affected by Zika Virus; Congenital Microcephaly Case Definitions; Hearing Loss in Infants with Microcephaly and Evidence of Congenital Zika Virus Infection � Brazil, November 2015�May 2016; Month by month estimates for potential zika transmission; 5 myths about mosquitoes; All Your Biggest Questions About Zika�Answered; Researchers strengthen link between Zika and microcephaly; Prevention of sexual transmission of Zika virus, Interim guidance update; Detection of Zoonotic Pathogens and Characterization of Novel Viruses Carried by Commensal Rattus norvegicus in New York City; Lifeform of the week: Rats; Preliminary Findings from an Investigation of Zika Virus Infection in a Patient with No Known Risk Factors � Utah, 2016; Zika Virus Disease Cases � 50 States and the District of Columbia, January 1�July 31, 2016; Epidemiology of Varicella During the 2-Dose Varicella Vaccination Program � United States, 2005�2014; Probable sexual transmission of Zika virus from a vasectomised man; Men with Vasectomies Can Still Spread Zika Via Sex, Report Suggests; Local Mosquito-Borne Transmission of Zika Virus � Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, Florida, June�August 2016;

Kids Health NEI for Kids (Vision health activities); 8 Things High School Grads Need to Do Before Leaving for College; Youth cyberbullying most common among current or former friends and dating partners; Wounds from childhood bullying may persist into college years, study finds; Bullying: Condition Information;

Maternal Child Health Five Misconceptions About the Role of Genomics in Public Health; THRIVES: Core Strategies to Prevent Violence Against Children;INSPIRE: Seven strategies for Ending Violence Against Children; U.S. Public Wary of Biomedical Technologies to �Enhance� Human Abilities; Six Things YOU Need to Know about Vaccines; What�s changed in genetics since your high school biology class?; DNA Discoveries; A major difference between DNA and RNA could explain why one is the go-to blueprint for life; New section:Human Enhancement; Human Enhancement - The Scientific and Ethical Dimensions of Striving for Perfection; U.S. Public Wary of Biomedical Technologies to �Enhance� Human Abilities; Human Enhancement The Scientific and Ethical Dimensions of Striving for Perfection; Controversial Human Embryo Editing: 5 Things to Know; Breaking Taboo, Swedish Scientist Seeks To Edit DNA Of Healthy Human Embryos

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Study shows health-plan successes determined by 'approach' or 'avoidance' strategies; Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Extreme Obesity Among Adults Aged 20 and Over: United States, 1960�1962 Through 2013�2014; High BMI Tied to T2D, but Not to Heart Troubles - Twin study suggests causal link between obesity and diabetes risk, independent of genetics; Being overweight can age your brain up to 10 years; Risk of Some Cancers Rises With Duration of Obesity Extent of overweight intensifies risk; Obesity Is Linked to at Least 13 Types of Cancer;

Public Health Data Behavioral Health Trends in the United States: Results from the 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health; See How Firework Injuries Skyrocket on July 4th;Acute Poisonings from Synthetic Cannabinoids � 50 U.S. Toxicology Investigators Consortium Registry Sites, 2010�2015; Trends in Methadone Distribution for Pain Treatment, Methadone Diversion, and Overdose Deaths � United States, 2002�2014; Drug Abuse in Middle Schools; Sexual Identity, Sex of Sexual Contacts, and Health-Related Behaviors Among Students in Grades 912 � United States and Selected Sites, 2015; Results from the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Summary of National Findings;Physical Inactivity Among Adults Aged 50 Years and Older � United States, 2014; Behavioral Health Trends in the United States: Results from the 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health; National Estimates of Marijuana Use and Related Indicators � National Survey on Drug Use and Health, United States, 2002�2014;

Public Health Sites A - C Understanding Child Trauma; Report raises 'drunkorexia' concerns in US colleges; HIV and Viral Hepatitis; Even one glass of wine a day raises the risk of cancer: Alarming study reveals booze is linked to at least SEVEN forms of the disease;Subjective aggression during alcohol and cannabis intoxication before and after aggression exposure; 7 Deadly Types of Cancer Directly Linked to Alcohol Consumption; The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Addiction; The A-Z Guide to Alcoholism and Depression: This guide outlines the link between alcoholism and depression; Adolescent exposure to drugs, alcohol fuels use in adulthood; Teens who smoke daily are more likely to report health complaints; Pharmacotherapy for Adults With Alcohol Use Disorder in Outpatient Settings; Anal Sex and HIV Risk; Vaginal Sex and HIV Risk; HIV Among Gay and Bisexual Men; Addiction cravings may get their start deep in the right side of the brain; Neural factors that predict adolescent alcohol use; Links Between Addiction and Mental Illness: Myths vs. Facts; How addiction hijacks the brain; Drinking to belong: Students and low self-esteem; Drinking to belong: The effect of a friendship threat and self-esteem on college student drinking; Binge Drinking;

Public Health Sites D-G Canned foods linked to BPA risk in new study; Energy and Air Pollution; Cancer From Chemicals? 3 Household Products That Are Known Carcinogens; 7 Ways Marijuana May Affect the Brain; Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA); Bulk Up Your Steroid Smarts; Marijuana Side Effects: 5 Worst Complaints From Users; Why Does Synthetic Marijuana Make People Act Like Zombies?; Cocaine and HIV Infection; Can Cocaine Use Make You More Likely to Get HIV?; Cocaine exposure enhances permissiveness of quiescent T cells to HIV infection; Drug-use may hamper moral judgment - First study to suggest why cocaine, meth users might struggle to discern right from wrong; The 1883 eruption on Krakatoa may be the loudest noise the Earth has ever made; A Visual Guide to Understanding IBS; Global Temperatures Are on Course for Another Record This Year; Why Synthetic Marijuana Is More Dangerous Than Ever; What Your Poop Type and Color Mean; What Your Gut Bacteria Say About You; Cocaine and Meth Users Can't Distinguish Between Right and Wrong, Study Shows; New section: Mercury Poisoning; Mercury Poisoning Linked to Skin Products; Marijuana exposure in kids rose after recreational use legalized in Colorado; These Pesticides Could Be Birth Control for Bees; How Did Opioid Drugs Get To Be So Deadly? A Brief History Of Its Transition From Trusted Painkiller To Epidemic; Secondhand Pot Smoke May Damage Blood Vessels - Impaired endothelial function in rats with even brief exposure; Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) Exposures Reported to Poison Centers � United States, 2010�2015; Opioids; 9 Hair Products That Can Be Bad for Your Health; Opioids and overdoses: 4 things to know; Unintended consequences: Why painkiller addicts turn to heroin; All the Drugs Banned at the Olympics, and What They Do @Thrillist; Without Judgement: How Mindfulness Leads to Being More Open-Minded; HSDB - A TOXNET DATABASE - Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB);
CTD - A TOXNET DATABASE - Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD�); IRIS - A TOXNET DATABASE - Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS); ITER - A TOXNET DATABASE - International Toxicity Estimates for Risk (ITER); CCRIS - A TOXNET DATABASE - Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System (CCRIS);
GENETOX - A TOXNET DATABASE - Genetic Toxicology Data Bank (GENE-TOX); Diarrhea; Incidence of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome � 28 States, 1999�2013; LGB Student Health Risks; Doping at the Games: Why the Olympics Banned These Drugs; CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain; What is flakka? The 'zombie drug' that causes terrifying hallucinations; What Is Flakka? All About the Drug that May Be Behind Florida Man Allegedly Stabbing, Attempting to Eat Couple; What is flakka and what does it do to you?; Flakka Is Like Bath Salts, But Worse; What is flakka and what does it do to you?; How the terrifying 'zombie' drug 'flakka' has already flooded into Australia - and it's WORSE than ice at just $7.50 a hit; Flakka: What is the 'zombie drug' blamed for face-eating attacks?; The Poop on Pooping: 5 Misconceptions Explained; NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory - Flood Basics; Warning Signs and Symptoms of Heat-Related Illness; Cocaine Addiction Causes 2016: This Brain Molecule May Drive Compulsive Drug Use; Prescription drug abuse tied to increased risk of teen suicide; Florida Zombie Drug Flakka: Everything You Need to Know; Fentanyl Law Enforcement Submissions and Increases in Synthetic Opioid�Involved Overdose Deaths � 27 States, 2013�2014; The Best Foods for Every Kind of Poop Problem;
Increases in Fentanyl-Related Overdose Deaths � Florida and Ohio, 2013�2015;Details On Death Certificates Offer Layers Of Clues To Opioid Epidemic; Top Earthquake States: Maps; Earthquakes, Magnitude 3.5 and Greater, 1974 - 2003; Quakes - Live Earthquakes Map;Real Time Earthquake Maps � Where and How Big?; Earthquakes Today; USGS Real Time US Earthquake Monitoring; Someone made a map of the world�s wind. It�s weirdly fun to play around with; Feds Declare War On Herb Touted As A Solution To Opioid Addiction - A new DEA push against kratom shows drug warriors haven�t learned from past failures; The DEA Is Placing Kratom And Mitragynine On Schedule I; The DEA Now Thinks Kratom Is as Dangerous as Heroin; Feds to Ban Chemicals Found in Kratom Plant; This Psychoactive Opioid Is Getting Banned By the DEA; DEA Banning All Sales of Kratom; New section: Tricolsan; Antibacterial Soap? You Can Skip It -- Use Plain Soap and Water;5 Things to Know About Triclosan; USGS Finally Confirms Wasterwater Fracking Causes Earthquakes; Incorporating Induced Seismicity in the 2014 United States National Seismic Hazard Model�Results of 2014 Workshop and Sensitivity Studies; What Does Transgender Mean? Your Guide to Understanding Trans Terminology; New section: carfentanil; Drug linked to Ohio overdoses can kill in doses smaller than a snowflake; Is carfentanil behind overdoses in Florida?; Unprecendented Number Of Overdoses Due To New Opiate Drugs, Can Kill In Doses Smaller Than Snowflake; An Even Deadlier Opioid, Carfentanil, Is Hitting The Streets; Drug Used To Sedate Elephants Now Causing Massive Overdoses; What Causes Motion Sickness?; Reefer slackness: Does marijuana reduce motivation?; Oxycontin vs Oxycodone: The Important Differences Between Opioid Painkillers; Crisis Standards of Care: A Systems Framework for Catastrophic Disaster Response; New Research Reveals Marijuana May Be Far Worse for the Brain Than We Thought; Facts About Prescription Opioid Abuse; The opioid painkiller and heroin epidemic, explained in fewer than 600 words; 5 Things to Know About Kratom; 10 Interesting Facts About Heroin; This is America on drugs: A visual guide;

Public Health Sites H-L CD4 T cells: fates, functions, and faults; Shocking new role found for the immune system: Controlling social interaction; Does the immune system control your social Interaction?; Your Immune System May Be Connected With Your Social Behaviors; Controlling Social Interaction Also An Immune System Function; The Immune System May Affect A Person�s Social Life; Immune System Influences Our Personality and Social Behavior, Says Study; Clinical Practice Guideline: Tinnitus; Psychotherapy Helps People Tune Out The Din Of Tinnitus; Prevalence, Severity, Exposures, and Treatment Patterns of Tinnitus in the United States; 50 Million Tinnitus Sufferers Just Got Some Bad News and Some Good News; 2016 Global Peace Index; Migraine Headache Causes And Symptoms 2016: Everything You Need To Know; Getting it 'just right' in the immune system How our immune system scales its response in proportion to any threat to our health; New section: Dizziness; Understanding Dizziness -- the Basics; Labyrinthitis and Vestibular Neuritis; Labyrinthitis; New section: Height; How Your Height Affects Your Health: Tall And Short People Face Different Types Of Disease; LSD Triggers Strong Activation Of Mind�s Semantic Networks, Study Finds; Migraines May Signal Vitamin Deficiency; What You Should Eat To Fortify Yourself Against Headaches; New section: Hair; Why Hair Turns Gray, It�s a natural process, but stress and smoking don�t help; Statistics about Hearing, Balance, Ear Infections, and Deafness;

Public Health Sites M - N Slideshow: Myths and Facts About Therapy; Surprising Signs of Depression Slideshow; The moral tipping point: Why it's hard to shake a bad impression; Social Anxiety Disorder; New section: Phobias; Phobias Slideshow: What Are You Afraid Of?; New section: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD); Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; New section: New section: Panic Attacks; Panic Attack Symptoms; If you�ve always wanted to try meditation, use this guide to get started; Updated map of the human brain hailed as a scientific tour de force; New Map Of The Brain Identifies 97 Previously Unknown Areas; This new brain map shows almost 100 areas never described before; How to stop being annoyed by life; Why Some People Handle Stress Better Than Others; Behavioral activation as effective as CBT for depression, at lower cost; A-Z Guide to Addiction and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy; 6 Surprising Facts About Erectile Dysfunction; More US Teens May Be Facing Depression: Here's Why; Neuroscientists just figured out what causes d�j� vu (and it�s not a glitch in The Matrix); Differences in Brain Activity May Determine How Smart You Are; The Psychology Behind Erectile Dysfunction: What�s Really Causing It; Loneliness Is a Warning Sign to Be Social; Psychopaths feel fear but see no danger; Bipolar adolescents continue to have elevated substance use disorder risk as young adults; The Best Back Exercises for Preventing Injury and Reducing Pain; New Research Confirms That Kids Get Their Intelligence From Mom; Big boys don�t cry: How social norms hurt boys and the rest of us;

Public Health Software The world map you know and love? It's been lying to you; How Big Africa Really is; How the World Map Looks Wildly Different Than You Think; The Map of Literature combines centuries of books and poems in one gorgeous illustration;

Research Resources on the Net The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists; A placebo can work even when you know it�s a placebo; New section: Placebo; From annoying to bitter, here are the six types of peer reviewers; Publishing: The peer-review scam; Online Surveys: Can We Trust Their Results?; We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated;Working Paper Version 256 Guidelines for Science: Evidence and Checklists; Conflict of interest/funding disclosure missing from half of news releases we�ve reviewed � a case study on why that�s important;

Want A Happy Marriage? Get A Good Night's Sleep; The Effects of Jet Lag: 6 Things it Does to Your Body; The circadian clock in your gut; These Science-Backed Study Tips Help You Learn Faster, Remember Longer; 6 Science-Backed Cures For Insomnia;How to Reset Your Sleep Cycle; Sleep duration and resting fMRI functional connectivity: examination of short sleepers with and without perceived daytime dysfunction;

Social Media 15 Hidden Snapchat Hacks & Features You'll Wish You Knew About Sooner; Networking Using LinkedIn and Social Media; 28 of the Best Instagrams to Follow for Design Inspiration; Social Media Tools; These Instagram Filters Mean You Might Be Depressed @Thrillist; 'I miss you so much': How Twitter is broadening the conversation on death and mourning; How an Algorithm Learned to Identify Depressed Individuals by Studying Their Instagram Photos; Do Your Instagram Filters Say You�re Depressed??; What Your Instagram Filter Use Says About Your Mental Health; Filtering Through the Emotions;Your Instagram Posts Can Reveal Your Mental Health Status; What Your Instagram Filter Use Says About Your Mental Health; Twitter will tell brands more about people who see their tweets, visit their sites; Rumor patterns on social media during emergencies; Facebook and Twitter take steps to wipe the web of fake news; Be Real-World Smart: A Beginner's Advanced Google Analytics Guide;Can�t Close Snapchat? What That Might Say About Your Mental Health;

Statistical Functions Ten simple rules to use statistics effectively; There�s No Such Thing as Innocuous Personal Data; How Should Companies Handle Data From Employees� Wearable Devices?;

State and Local Comprehensive Smoke-Free Laws for Worksites, Restaurants, and Bars � United States, 2015; Electronic Cigarette Use Among Middle and High School Students � United States, 2011�2012; Unproven claims run rampant in e-cigarette business; Teen vaping could reverse progress in the control of tobacco; Tobacco Product Use Among Adults � United States, 2013�2014; Secondhand smoke: Their cigarettes can make you sick; E-cigarette nicotine labels not always accurate; An observational study of compliance with North Dakota's smoke-free law among retail stores that sell electronic smoking devices; DrugFacts: Electronic Cigarettes (e-Cigarettes); More cancer-causing chemicals found in electronic cigarettes; FDA and Public Health Experts Warn About Electronic Cigarettes; Trends in Awareness and Use of Electronic Cigarettes among U.S. Adults, 2010-2013; The FDA is banning e-cigarette sales to people under 18; E-cigs create toxic vapors from harmless e-liquids;
E-cigarettes; Deeming Tobacco Products to be Subject to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as Amended by the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act; Regulations Restricting the Sale and Distribution of Tobacco Products and Required Warning Statements for Tobacco Product Packages and Advertisements;
Explainer: The nico-teen brain; Vaping may threaten brain, immunity and more;
Emissions from Electronic Cigarettes: Key Parameters Affecting the Release of Harmful Chemicals; Electronic cigarettes and nicotine clinical pharmacology; Nicotine Delivery Systems; Disparities in Adult Cigarette Smoking � United States, 2002�2005 and 2010�2013; FDA�s New Regulations for E-Cigarettes, Cigars, and All Other Tobacco Products; Secondhand E-Cig Vapor Can Penetrate Paint. What Does That Mean For Your Lungs?; Effective and Compliance Dates Applicable to Retailers, Manufacturers, Importers, and Distributors of Newly Deemed Tobacco Products; Tobacco Advertising and Promotional Expenditures in Sports and Sporting Events � United States, 1992�2013; Bacteria in smokeless tobacco products may be a health concern; One more reason to swear off tobacco: The inflammatory trap induced by nicotine; Current Cigarette Smoking, Access, and Purchases from Retail Outlets Among Students Aged 13�15 Years � Global Youth Tobacco Survey, 45 Countries, 2013 and 2014; Smoking Permanently Damages Your DNA, Study Finds; Vaporizers, E-Cigarettes, and other Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS);

US Government Statistics Service-Connected Disability or Death Benefits for Veterans; 2016 Building a Grad Nation Report; College and Career Readiness of U.S. High School Graduates; Veterans Service Records; diversitydatakids.org;

Useful Sites Why It's Harder to Recover from Jet Lag When You Fly East; 6 Flight Secrets Pilots Don't Want You To Know; Submit a Complaint: How to Report a Cosmetic-Related Problem; The 50 Most Beautiful Places in South America; The Mistake Most People Make During an Airplane Evacuation; How to Evade 5 Hidden Airline Fees @Thrillist; What to Do if You Get Lost When Traveling;

Webmastering Tools 18 of the Best Examples of Mobile Website Design; Goodfreephotos.com; 9 Best Tools to Optimize Animated GIFs;

Web Resources Wiretap Report 2015; How Does Google Analytics Collect Information?; Hackers are coming for your healthcare records -- here�s why; Hackers, phishers, and disappearing thumb drives: Lessons learned from major health care data breaches; The first big Internet of Things security breach is just around the corner; Your smartwatch is giving away your ATM PIN; We literally cannot let go of our smartphones, new�; All your IoT devices are doomed;How to safely access and navigate the Dark Web; Fix Windows 10; Windows 7 & 8.1 spies too. Fix it using our short manual; Researchers report cybersecurity risks in 3-D printing; The Internet of Things: Some positives, several problems;New worries about ransomware � attacking smartphones; Windows 10 then and now: The changing look of Microsoft's latest OS; Windows 10: CNIL publicly serves formal notice to Microsoft Corporation to comply with the French Data Protection Act within three months; Decision No 2016-058 of 30th june 2016 serving a formal notice on Microsoft Corporation; 5 Ways Your Smartphone Can Get a Virus; No More Ransom: law enforcement & IT security companies join forces to fight ransomware; No More Ransom: law enforcement and IT security companies join forces to fight ransomware | Europol; Security Experts Team Up to Help You Fight Ransomware; New Portal Offers Decryption Tools For Some Ransomware Victims; Nomoreransom.org; Ransomware 2.0 is around the corner and it's a massive threat to the enterprise; KeySniffer - Wireless Keyboard Sniffing and Injection; The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Addiction; What�s the Right Age for a Child to Get a Smartphone?; Tricks that ransomware uses to fool you; IoT hidden security risks: How businesses and telecommuters can protect themselves; New section: Ransomware; Infographic: The 5 phases of a ransomware attack; Microsoft won't fix Windows flaw that lets hackers steal your username and password; Four misleading myths about the Dark Web; 75 Marketing & Business Acronyms & Abbreviations Every Industry Pro Should Know; 11 ways to fight off ransomware;Researcher hides stealthy malware inside legitimate digitally signed files; 20 Free Chrome Add-Ons That Will Improve Your Life Immediately @Thrillist; The Hacking Teams: who they are, what they want, and how they hack;Your Computer Doesn�t Care If You Lose Everything: Back It Up Right Now; How to avoid ransomware attacks: 10 tips; Computer scientists reveal history of third-party web tracking;'Massive' Locky ransomware campaign targets hospitals; Quiz: Are you addicted to the Internet?; New section: Biometric Data;Your Facebook photos could be betraying important biometric data; Despite billions spent on cybersecurity, companies aren�t truly safe from hacks; So your company�s been hacked: How to handle the aftermath; Using the Google Analytics Site Search reports; Data breach average costs hit $4 million mark; Ransomware: The smart person's guide; Dark Web: The smart person's guide; New section: Cybersecurity; Governments and nation states are now officially training for cyberwarfare: An inside look; Cyberwar and the Future of Cybersecurity; The Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) 2015 | Europol; iPhone vs Android: Choice Of Smartphone Reveals Your Personality Traits; 15 unique analog and mechanical computers from throughout history; Why We Love How-to Videos;
How it works: Iris scanning improves smartphone security; Cybercrime and cyberwar: A spotter's guide to the groups that are out to get you; How to safely access and navigate the Dark Web; How not to verify a data breach (and why some really want you to get "pwned"); How to Report On a Hack; Here's how I verify data breaches; How your data is collected and commoditised via �free� online services; Evolution of Speech Technologies; 68% of organizations don�t have an IoT test strategy; Here's how the Internet of Things will explode by 2020; Internet Addiction May Be Red Flag for Other Mental Health Issues:Study; Why ransomware is exploding, and how your company can protect itself; An ISTR Special Report: Ransomware and Businesses 2016;Cybersecurity predictions for 2016: How are they doing?; Breach Level Index; Categorizing Data Breach Severity with a Breach Level Index; New section: Emotion Recognition;Detecting emotions with wireless signals;

Wellness Resources Part I (1 - 5) Who's Happier: People Who Hook Up, or Those in Relationships; The 10 Most Surprising Sex Statistics; Conflict Resolution Skills For A Healthy Relationship: Focus On The Future, Says Study;

Writing How to Write a Great Email Signature: 9 Tips With Real Examples; How to Search Engine Optimize Your Blog Content; 12 Blogging Mistakes Most Beginner Bloggers Make; 9 Tips for Making Your Writing More Interesting; FTC Charges Academic Journal Publisher OMICS Group Deceived Researchers; U.S. government agency sues publisher, charging it with deceiving researchers; FTC vs. OMICs lawsuit; Pros and cons of supplementary materials in scientific publishing; Friends are no better than strangers in accurately identifying emotion in emails;

Career Resources 21 Things Recruiters Absolutely Hate About Your Resume;What 3,000+ Job Postings Taught Us About Today's Content Marketers; Get a STEM Job With Less Than a 4-Year Degree; The 9 Worst Mistakes You Can Ever Make at Work;

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Academic Resources Your Grossest, Most Shameful College Habits, Revealed to Doctors @Thrillist; Studying: Is it bad for your health to pull an all-nighter?; Going for a run could improve cramming for exams; Internet use in class tied to lower test scores;

Surveillance for Cancer Incidence and Mortality � United States, 2012; 14th Report on Carcinogens (RoC); New section: Cancer-Causing Viruses; NIEHS's Cancer-Causing Viruses; Smoking a pack a day for a year causes 150 mutations in lung cells;Cancer and tobacco use - Tobacco use causes many cancers; Cancer Is Linked To Unexpressed Anger, Studies Say (And Here Are Ways To Deal With It);

Cause of disability-adjusted life-years in rich nations. (IHME); Cause of disability-adjusted life-years in all nations.(IHME); Fiscal Policies for Diet and Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases;

How calcium supplements may be damaging your heart - A new study suggests that taking calcium supplements may increase cardiovascular risks; Calcium Intake From Diet and Supplements and the Risk of Coronary Artery Calcification and its Progression Among Older Adults: 10‐Year Follow‐up of the Multi‐Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA);Total and High-density Lipoprotein Cholesterol in Adults: United States, 2011�2014; Calcium Intake From Diet and Supplements and the Risk of Coronary Artery Calcification and its Progression Among Older Adults: 10‐Year Follow‐up of the Multi‐Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA); Genetic Risk, Adherence to a Healthy Lifestyle, and Coronary Disease; 22 Foods You Should Avoid as Much as Possible; Heart Disease and Cancer Deaths � Trends and Projections in the United States, 1969�2020;

Chinese Culture The Complicated Sex Lives of Giant Pandas; Megatomb of the First Emperor of China; New section: Terra-Cotta Warriors; Discoveries May Rewrite History of China's Terra-Cotta Warriors; The forgotten history of Chinese immigrants in this Mexican border town;

Cool Sites A- L Phone Photography 101: How to Take Good Pictures With Your Phone;Everyday Driving Habits That Could Save Your Life @Thrillist; Why The Golden Ratio Is Better Than The Rule Of Thirds; Get Out of Auto: How to Use Your Camera�s Shooting Modes for Better Photos; How to Develop a Better Eye for Taking Good Photos; How to Photograph the Supermoon: NASA Pro Shares His Tips;How to Take Good Sunset Photos;Best Photo Management Apps for Android; Cheeky Sign Artworks Say What Everyone's Really Thinking; We like what experts like -- and what is expensive - Art taste bends to social factors;

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about... Day and night exactly equal at equinoxes?; A Nonlinear History of Time Travel - Births, deaths, and other time travel paradoxes; Why It's Impossible to Know a Coastline's True Length; Photo Timeline: How the Earth Formed; 25 Most Mysterious Archaeological Finds on Earth; What's That Noise? 11 Strange and Mysterious Sounds on Earth & Beyond;Four keys to understanding moon phases; The Mirror Effect - How the rise of mirrors in the fifteenth century shaped our idea of the individual; The 7 Biggest Mysteries of the Human Body; Alpha Centauri Gets a New Moniker as 227 Star Names Are Clarified; Naming Stars; Americans Name the 10 Most Significant Historic Events of Their Lifetimes;

Graphing Your Guide To Designing Effective Visual Communication � infographic; 10 Types Of Awesome Visual Content Your Brand Should Be Creating Right Now [Infographic];8 Helpful Resources for Creating Beautiful Infographics; New guidelines aim to improve understanding of scientific data; Data Visualization 101: How to Choose the Right Chart or Graph for Your Data;

Health Care Information 5 Over-the-Counter Meds That Are More Dangerous Than You Think; What Makes a Medication a Controlled Substance?; How to Choose Between an HMO, PPO, and EPO Health Plan; 4 Over-the-Counter Meds That Are Dangerous to Take Together; The US government is finally telling people that homeopathy is a sham; Enforcement Policy Statement on Marketing Claims for OTC Homeopathic Drugs; NHMRC Statement on Homeopathy and NHMRC Information Paper - Evidence on the effectiveness of homeopathy for treating health conditions; A brief history of homeopathy; Medication Safety Basics; My Health Resume;

Health Education Resources There Are No True Rebels - We follow others no matter how hard we try; 6 Bad Habits That Are Making You Dumb; How to Make or Break a Habit;

A - L Pathogen Genomics; Foodborne (1973�2013) and Waterborne (1971�2013) Disease Outbreaks � United States; 7 Absolutely Horrible Head Infections; The 9 Deadliest Viruses on Earth; Investigation of the First Seven Reported Cases of Candida auris, a Globally Emerging Invasive, Multidrug-Resistant Fungus � United States, May 2013�August 2016; 27 Devastating Infectious Diseases; Ebola adapted to better infect humans during 2013-2016 epidemic; Your flu risk may be linked to the year you were born; First flu is forever; Types of Influenza Viruses; Why Some Flus Are Deadliest in Young Adults - The first flu you get matters for the rest of your life;'Patient zero': The misunderstood stories of how disease spreads; Top 7 Germs in Food that Make You Sick; Factors in the Emergence of Infectious Diseases; 5 Rare and Deadly Diseases You Should Know About; 7 Diseases You Didn�t Know Could Be Deadly;

M - Z Local Mosquito-Borne Transmission of Zika Virus � Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, Florida, June�August 2016; Number of confirmed and probable Zika virus disease cases reported from U.S. states and the District of Columbia � January 1�July 31, 2016; Number of confirmed and probable Zika virus disease cases reported from U.S. states and the District of Columbia, by month of illness onset and source of infection � January 1�July 31, 2016; Characteristics of Children Aged <18 Years with Zika Virus Disease Acquired Postnatally � U.S. States, January 2015�July 2016; Update: Interim Guidance for Preconception Counseling and Prevention of Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus for Persons with Possible Zika Virus Exposure � United States, September 2016; Characteristics of Children Aged <18 Years with Zika Virus Disease Acquired Postnatally � U.S. States, January 2015�July 2016; Key Messages - Zika Virus Disease; Everything You Need to Know About Zika, in the U.S. and Abroad; Zika Virus: How to Protect Yourself; Prolonged Detection of Zika Virus in Vaginal Secretions and Whole Blood; Zika virus infection alters human, viral RNA; New section: Mayaro Virus; The Mayaro Virus Could Be Every Bit As Bad As Zika; Preparedness for Zika Virus Disease � New York City, 2016; Zika virus infections modify viral and human genetic material, research finds; Adult brain cells may be vulnerable to Zika infection, new study suggests; Zika causes a unique syndrome of devastating birth defects; Zika causes a unique syndrome of devastating birth defects; Incidence of Zika Virus Disease by Age and Sex � Puerto Rico, November 1, 2015�October 20, 2016; Progress Toward Regional Measles Elimination � Worldwide, 2000�2015; Zika virus can live for hours on hard, non-porous surfaces; Reported Tuberculosis in the United States, 2015; Trends in Tuberculosis, 2015; Take on TB Infographic; Official American Thoracic Society/Infectious Diseases Society of America/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Clinical Practice Guidelines: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Adults and Children; Preliminary Report of Microcephaly Potentially Associated with Zika Virus Infection During Pregnancy � Colombia, January�November 2016; World Malaria Report 2016; Mosquito-borne diseases Mosquitoes cause millions of deaths every year; Zika Virus RNA Replication and Persistence in Brain and Placental Tissue;

Nutrition Resources WHO urges global action to curtail consumption and health impacts of sugary drinks; Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health; Dietary Guidelines 2015 - 2020; Vitamins and Minerals Fact Sheets;Herbal Supplements You Shouldn�t Try; How Much Do We Actually Know About GMO Foods?; The 6 Different Types of Eaters: Which One Are You?; Scientists uncover genetic evidence that 'we are what we eat'; The Supplements You Should Stay Away From; 5 Ways Processed Meats Are Destroying Your Health;

To get a flatter belly, start by getting enough sleep; Prevalence of Obesity Among Adults and Youth: United States, 2011�2014; Obesity ties cancer as top health threat, new survey shows; Understanding of risks of obesity is improving, but major misperceptions about causes and treatments persist; Obesity rises to top health concern for Americans, but misperceptions persist;New insights into Americans� perceptions and misperceptions of obesity treatments, and the struggles many face; What Do We Know About Kids Who Rapidly Get Fatter?; Trends in Obesity Among Participants Aged 2�4 Years in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children � United States, 2000�2014;

Public Health Data Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980�2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015; Adolescence � Preparing for Lifelong Health and Wellness; Health at a Glance 2015; Trends in HIV Diagnoses, Risk Behaviors, and Prevention Among Persons Who Inject Drugs � United States; Diagnoses of HIV Infection in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2015; Potentially Preventable Deaths Among the Five Leading Causes of Death � United States, 2010 and 2014; Trends in U.S. HIV Diagnoses, 2005-2014;

Public Health Sites A - C Here's how young people decide when they're drunk 'enough,' according to math; Fragranced products: Risks for people and profits?; Adolescents do not 'get the gist' when it comes to making risky decisions online;�Patient Zero�: The Absence of a Patient�s View of the Early North American AIDS Epidemic; The truth about 'patient zero' and HIV's origins; Researchers Clear 'Patient Zero' From AIDS Origin Story; Genetic Sleuthing Clears �Patient Zero� of Blame for U.S. AIDS Epidemic; How scientists proved the wrong man was blamed for bringing HIV to the U.S.; Mythology of �Patient Zero� and how AIDS virus traveled to the United States is all wrong; AIDS: The making of the 'Patient Zero' myth; Scented Rooms, Products? Many Health-Conscious Americans Say 'No Thanks'; Why Go Fragrance Free?; Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Known to be a human carcinogen;About HIV/AIDS; How 8 Common Medications Interact with Alcohol; Teenage binge drinking can affect brain function of future offspring; Facing Addiction in America, The Surgeon General�s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health 2016; National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States: Updated to 2020; The Basics of HIV Prevention;

Public Health Sites D-G 5 Things to Know About Kratom; 10 Interesting Facts About Heroin; This is America on drugs: A visual guide; WHO releases country estimates on air pollution exposure and health impact; ShakeOut Scenario video; Southern California Earthquake Situation; Find Help &amp Treatment;"Chasing the Dragon: The Life of an Opiate Addict video; Prescription Drug Abuse Public Service Announcement - Miami; Get Smart About Drugs; How Drugs Alter Brain Development and Affect Teens; Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale; Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale graphic; Safe Drug Use After a Natural Disaster;Flood Water After a Disaster or Emergency; Preventing Misuse of Prescription Opioid Drugs; Mixing the Pot? 7 Ways Marijuana Interacts with Medicines; New section: Pesticides; Acute Nonoccupational Pesticide-Related Illness and Injury � United States, 2007�2011; Acute Occupational Pesticide-Related Illness and Injury �United States, 2007�2011; Increase in Adverse Reactions Associated with Use of Synthetic Cannabinoids � Anchorage, Alaska, 2015�2016; Pink: Stronger Than Heroin, But Legal In Most States; There's a Good Chance the Water You're Drinking Is Bad for You; Pharmacists on the Front Lines of Prescription Opioid Overdose Prevention;That Plastic Container You Microwave In Could Be Super-Toxic; BPA Is Still Present in 60% of Cans in the U.S.: Study; BPA Linked to Premature Babies: Study; Health Problems from Common Chemicals Cost $340 Billion Per Year: Study; You Asked: Is Perfume Bad for Me?; This Makeup Additive Is Linked to a Lower IQ; Plastic Chemicals During Pregnancy Linked to 70% Increased Asthma Risk; The Link Between Asthma and This Chemical; BPA Exposure in Pregnant Women May Affect Daughters� Behavior; How BPA May Disrupt Brain Development; Chemical Exposures Prove Costly for U.S. - Endocrine-disrupting chemicals are at fault; Regular Marijuana Users Are Twice as Likely to Break a Bone; Scientists are unlocking the mystery of how marijuana makes us get high; High-Potency Pot Doubles Risk of Marijuana Dependence; Cannabinoid receptor structure revealed; Why Some Pot Smokers Face a Higher Risk of Drinking Problems; Children who witness violence or are sexually abused are more likely to inject drugs as adults; The �chemsex� scene: An increasingly popular and sometimes lethal public-health problem; Radon and Cancer;The global climate 2011-2015: hot and wild; Decline of Arctic�s thickest sea ice; New section: U-47700; U.S. DEA temporarily bans synthetic opioid 'pink' after 46 deaths; Schedules of Controlled Substances: Temporary Placement of U-47700 into Schedule I; 50 Amazing Volcano Facts; Study explores how immune system functions during sleep; 9 Weird Ways You Can Test Positive for Drugs; Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety OPINION ON Parabens; 9 Hair Products That Can Be Bad for Your Health; Health Effects of Mercury Exposure; What Is Plate Tectonics?; Arctic Resilience Report 2016; Vestibular function declines starting at age 40; Why fentanyl is deadlier than heroin, in a single photo; �Truly terrifying�: Chinese suppliers flood US and Canada with deadly fentanyl; Agony of Opioid Withdrawal; A new threat in fight against overdoses: elephant sedative; BIG ONE FEARS: Huge tear on Ring of Fire could lead to CATASTROPHIC earthquakes & tsunamis; New section: AK-47 25 Karat Gold; Drug 85 Times as Potent as Marijuana Caused a �Zombielike� State in Brooklyn; New section: Hazardous waste; Learn the basics of hazardous waste;

Public Health Sites H-L Surprising Things That Can Hurt Your Kidneys; New section: Intelligence: Everyone Is Talented In Their Own Way: The 9 Types Of Intelligence You Should Know; Which Of The 9 Types Of Intelligence Dominate Your Brain?; New section: Inflammation; Inflammation: Causes, Symptoms & Anti-Inflammatory Diet; Immune System: Diseases, Disorders & Function; Does Inflammation Harm Your Health?; New section: Sneezing; Ah-CHOO! 7 Tickling Facts About Sneezing; Fingernails on a Chalkboard: Why This Sound Gives You the Shivers;13 Tips to Strengthen Your Immune System; Generation Deaf: Doctors Warn of Dangers of Ear Buds; Headphones and damage; Emotional Abuse in Childhood May Mean Migraine Later Migraine onset preceded by emotional abuse in 83% of cases;

Public Health Sites O-Z Ocular Syphilis Linked to HIV; Health determined by social relationships at work; How Back Pain Took Over the World - The biggest cause of disability around the world is surprisingly banal;2015 STD Surveillance Report; 13 Tips to Prevent Eye Fatigue; Tips to Keep Your Joints Healthy; Cardiovascular Health Status by Occupational Group � 21 States, 2013; Do you know someone who may be considering suicide?; Mynoise.net; Chronic Pain Can Cause Long-Lasting Damage To Your Brain;HPV and Men - Fact Sheet; Suicide Attempts among Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Adults; New section: Personality Disorders; What Are Personality Disorders?; Computer Vision Syndrome Affects Millions;

Public Health Software The Killer Hiding in the CDC Map - What caused Haiti�s cholera epidemic? The CDC museum knows but won�t say; This weird globe-folding map isn�t perfect, but it�s pretty damn close; Google's Timelapse; These maps show how Americans are dying younger. It�s not just the opioid epidemic;

Research Resources on the Net A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors. The results are concerning; Everyone Plays a Role in Research Integrity; Why Fake Data When You Can Fake a Scientist?; Ranking major and minor research misbehaviors: results from a survey among participants of four World Conferences on Research Integrity; Why articles are retracted: a retrospective cross-sectional study of retraction notices at BioMed Central; The predatory publishing phenomenon: dead end or just an inconvenience on the road to a new scholarly publishing landscape?; Understanding randomization of clinical trials crucial to success;

Senior Health Adults Need More Physical Activity; 6 Big Mysteries of Alzheimer's Disease; Important Facts about Falls;
Beyond Alzheimer�s: 7 Types of Dementia Everyone Needs to Know About; The aging brain benefits from distraction; How Not to Die, According to Harvard Researchers @Thrillist; The Talent for Aging Well; Healthy Aging in Action: Advancing the National Prevention Strategy;

10 Things to Know About Your Child's Sleep; Sleep Hygiene; Scary Ways Technology Affects Your Sleep; Sleeping While Awake; Prevalence of Motor Vehicle Crashes Involving Drowsy Drivers, United States, 2009 � 2013;6 Ways Sleep Deprivation Is Slowly Annihilating Your Health; 10 Tips to Reset Your Internal Clock; Lack Of Sleep May Raise Risk Of Aggressive Breast Cancer: Study; Sleep deprivation: Late nights can lead to higher risk of strokes and heart attacks, study finds; 8 Scary Side Effects Of Sleep Deprivation;
Sleep Deprivation Can Change Your Genes; Good Sleep Habits; Not Enough Sleep Could Increase Stroke Risk: Study; Poor sleep in old age prevents the brain from storing memories: Sleep and Depression; Why the Body in Your Dreams May Not Match the Real You;The Science Behind Our Strange, Spooky Dreams; Why does daylight affect our mood?; Inadequate Sleep as a Risk Factor for Obesity: Analyses of the NHANES I; If You Do This Before Bed, Your Sleep Will Seriously Suffer; Unplug! Too Much Light at Night May Lead to Depression; Consuming violent media linked to 13x surge in violent dreams; Study finds sexual media content also affects dreams; Jet lag and obesity share similar pathways to liver cancer; How kids' brains respond to a late night up Sleep deprivation affects children's brains differently than adults'; Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time; Driving on 5 hours of sleep is like driving drunk; How to Sleep - Should you drink more coffee? Should you take melatonin? Can you train yourself to need less sleep? A physician�s guide to sleep in a stressful age; 5 Ways Not Getting Enough Sleep Hurts Your Health and Appearance; Why Late Nights Are Bad for Your Immune System; Sleep is NOT for the weak: Why staying up late is bad for the brain and body; How to Rewire Your Brain for Better Sleep; Why Are Some People Early Birds and Others Night Owls?; Jet lag and night shifts disrupt rhythm of hundreds of genes, study shows;Going To Bed Late Can Increase Negative Thinking And Worry; Acute Sleep Deprivation and Risk of Motor Vehicle Crash Involvement: Fact Sheet and Full Report; Why Is Blue Light before Bedtime Bad for Sleep?;

Social Media Can�t Close Snapchat? What That Might Say About Your Mental Health; Instagram Analytics: Tools, Tips and Tactics; Science reveals what really increases Twitter followers; Average Number of Twitter Followers;How to Create Social Media Buttons for All the Top Social Networks; 9 things you need to know about tracking social media with Google Analytics; Media Use in School-Aged Children and Adolescents; More time on digital devices means kids less likely to finish homework; Health Effect of Social Media Use; Link found between selfie viewing, decreased self-esteem; 7 Ways You May Look Like a Psychopath or Narcissist on Facebook; 6 Facts About Facebook That Will Make You Mad; How Visual Content Drives Social Media Growth #infographic; Social media posts can cost you your job, the First Amendment has no protection; How Online Harassment Can Cause Damage in Real Life; Social Networking Platforms� User Demographics Update 2016; 17 Hidden YouTube Hacks, Tips & Features You'll Want to Know About; New section: YouTube; How to avoid feeling depressed on Facebook; Trouble with Social Media Trolls? 6 Tricks to Take Them Out; The new words that expose our smartphone obsessions; Do You Know Who�s Tracking You? These 6 Companies Are; Feeling Depressed? 8 Reasons to Blame Your Internet Use; 8 Ways Your Tech Is Hurting You, and How to Stop It; 7 Ways Facebook Can Ruin a Relationship; Is Technology Bad For Your Health? 6 Gadget Habits to Avoid; Does life online give you 'popcorn brain'?;
Excessive internet use linked to depression, research shows; Overcoming Information Overload;

Statistical Functions How Should Companies Handle Data From Employees� Wearable Devices?; The problem with p-values; Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science; Why Most Published Research Findings Are False; Empirical assessment of published effect sizes and power in the recent cognitive neuroscience and psychology literature;
P-Value; Calibration of p Values for Testing Precise Null Hypotheses; An investigation of the false discovery rate and the misinterpretation of p-values; Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Null Hypothesis Significance Testing;

Temperament These are the four most common personality types � which are you?;

Vaporizers, E-Cigarettes, and other Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS); E-Cig Flavoring, Battery Voltage Linked to Cellular Toxicity - Strawberry flavoring most toxic of five tested flavors; Smoking just 15 cigarettes harms your DNA, finds cancer study on gene mutation; E Cigarette Explosions: An In Depth Investigation; Report Highlights Explosion Risk from E-Cigarettes - Seattle burn center reports 15 cases in less than a year;Electronic Cigarette Use Among Adults: United States, 2014;Snus May Increase Prostate Cancer Progression, Death - Smokeless tobacco product appeared to raise disease-specific death risk; State-Level Cancer Mortality Attributable to Cigarette Smoking in the United States; Smoking and Cancer; The Health Consequences of Smoking�50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General; Safer to Puff, E-Cigarettes Can�t Shake Their Reputation as a Menace; Deaths from Smoking-Attributable Cancers; Smoking a pack a day for a year causes 150 mutations in lung cells - Genetic damage caused by smoking measured in different organs of the body; Mutational signatures associated with tobacco smoking in human cancer; Teens Using Candy-Flavored E-Cigs Show High Interest in Smoking Are flavored vaping products gateways to youth smoking?;Teens who vape are more likely to become teens who smoke � and smoke more often; Teens Who Vape Are Much More Likely to Become Heavy Smokers: Study; Cancer and Tobacco Use; Current Cigarette Smoking Among Adults � United States, 2005�2015; Disparities in Tobacco-Related Cancer Incidence and Mortality � United States, 2004�2013;Electronic-cigarette Use and Respiratory Symptoms in Adolescents; Smoking electronic cigarettes kills large number of mouth cells; Secondhand (and Third-Hand) Smoke May Be Making Your Pet Sick; Disparities in Tobacco-Related Cancer Incidence and Mortality � United States, 2004�2013;Vapors from some flavored e-liquids contain high levels of aldehydes; No safe level of smoking: Even low-intensity smokers are at increased risk of earlier death; Eight-fold STEMI Increase in Younger Adult Smokers - Adults <50 appeared to have highest smoking-related heart attack risk in U.K. study;Consumption of Combustible and Smokeless Tobacco � United States, 2000�2015; Know the Risks - E cigarettes and Young People; Smoking down, number of lives saved up as more countries embrace tobacco control measures;

US Government Statistics Where in America Are the Most Online Fraudsters?; diversitydatakids.org; Who Still Lives at Home with Their Parents?; The Equality of Opportunity Project; The American Dream, Quantified at Last; 500 Cities: Local data for better health;

Useful Sites The World's Scariest Bridges; How to run a free background check; 10 Secrets Airlines Don�t Want You to Know; What are the dirtiest places on airplanes and airports?;

Webmastering Tools 9 Best Tools to Optimize Animated GIFs; Public Domain Collections: Free to Share & Reuse; 20 of the Best Free Stock Photo Sites; How to Generate Leads From the Most Popular Pages on Your Website; How to turn any YouTube video into an animated GIF;

Web Resources Detecting emotions with wireless signals;Remove ransomware infections from your PC using these free tools; Watson's the name, data's the game; Why Google A.I. is the last user interface; 5 Ways Your Favorite Devices are Harming Your Health; Let�s get serious about IoT security; IoT malware behind record DDoS attack is now available to all hackers; The 20 biggest tech disasters of all time; Virlock ransomware can now use the cloud to spread, say researchers; The cost of ransomware attacks: $1 billion this year; Hackerpocalypse: A Cybercrime Revelation; IT Security Spending Trends; Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, and Neural Networks, Explained; 3 security mistakes that can ruin your next trip;Can AI really be ethical and unbiased?; It's a world wide web of lies (but facts strike back); These free ransomware decryption tools have rescued data from 2,500 locked devices; Half of U.S. adults are profiled in police facial recognition databases; The use of police photo databases raises questions about a lack of regulation and the accuracy of results; Yes, using more social networks raises your risk of ID theft � a lot, says ID Analytics;Gaining an �edge� in IoT; Police Scan 117 Million Driving Licence Photos for Face Recognition Database; Breaking Down Mirai: An IoT DDoS Botnet Analysis; Digitalattackmap.com; Why you should devote as much time to dark data as big data; How the Grinch Stole IoT; New section: DDoS; How the Grinch Stole IoT; Why hackers choose DDoS attacks; Here's how the 'Internet of Things' is being used for major cyberattacks on corporations; Internet of things research study - 2015 Report; CAIDA - Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis; Robots are most likely to take the jobs of those who least expect it; The least educated people in the world are in denial about how robots will take over their jobs; Robots will steal your job: How AI could increase unemployment and inequality;History repeating: How the IoT is failing to learn the security lessons of the past; The first big Internet of Things security breach is just around the corner; Internet of Things: Finding a way out of the security nightmare; Statement for the Record Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community - Senate Armed Services Committee; IoT devices can be hacked in minutes, warn researchers; Hackers in the house: Why your IoT devices may have already joined a botnet; DDoS attacks: Getting bigger and more dangerous all the time; IoT devices being increasingly used for DDoS attacks; Ransomware's next target: Your car and your home; RAA ransomware now targets businesses, installs data stealing 'Pony' malware; This data-stealing Trojan is the first to also infect you with ransomware; Easy to carry out, difficult to fight against: Why ransomware is booming in 2016; Ransomware is now the biggest cybersecurity threat; US, Canada issue alert on ransomware; New ransomware skips files, encrypts your whole hard drive; Criminals in the cloud: How malware-as-a-service is becoming the tool of choice for crooks; IoT, mobile tracking devices for iPad, iPhone riddled with critical flaws;Electronic health records: The new gold standard for cybercriminals; Data breach average costs hit $4 million mark; How to defend against the internet's doomsday of DDoS attacks; DDoS attack methods and how to prevent or mitigate them; Does privacy exist anymore? Just barely; An After-Action Analysis of the Mirai Botnet Attacks on Dyn; Researchers blame Dyn DDoS attack on script kiddies targeting video game company; Friday's Massive DDoS Attack Came from Just 100,000 Hacked IoT Device; Hackers create more IoT botnets with Mirai source code; 4 Puzzling Technology Questions; hinese firm admits its hacked products were behind Friday's DDOS attack; IoT's moment of truth -- who can secure the data flows?;The secret behind the success of Mirai IoT botnets;How to Easily Deny Denial of Service; Small Cybersecurity Steps You Should Take. Today; Tor: The smart person's guide; How to keep your gadgets from being part of a botnet;The Dark Web Isn�t All Dark;4 of the Most Shocking Internet Privacy Laws; Your smartphone may be hurting your sleep; These were the biggest hacks, leaks and data breaches of 2016;66% of organizations won't recover after cyberattack, study says; Half of surveyed U.S. businesses admitted to suffering a ransomware attack; The light side of the Dark Web; Vintage '90s tech you'll never see again; How to secure your IoT devices from botnets and other threats; What Are Denial of Service and DDoS Attacks?; What�s the Difference Between TCP and UDP?;
What Is a Botnet?; Not All �Viruses� Are Viruses: 10 Malware Terms Explained;The Internet of Things is making hospitals more vulnerable to hackers;Inside the black box: Understanding AI decision-making; Bad (internet of) things - What we can do to keep all those clever devices from causing harm; DDoS attack shows dangers of IoT 'running rampant'; IoT botnet highlights the dangers of default passwords The Mirai botnet used IoT devices to launch a massive DDOS attack; The biggest threat to artificial intelligence: Human stupidity; New section: Phishing; hishing made easy: Time to rethink your prevention strategy?;
5 Reasons to Assume Your Odds of Getting Hacked Are 100%; Video: The top 5 reasons you should care about privacy; Video meets the Internet of Things; An executive�s guide to the Internet of Things; Learn cybersecurity basics with these essential YouTube videos; Worried about identity theft? Then you should avoid these password pitfalls; How snapping a quick selfie could help identify genetic diseases; 12 Signs That You Use Your Smartphone Too Much;
Your iPhone Is Making You Depressed; 'Gadget allergy' disability recognised in French court; Phishing remains a data breach weapon of choice, says Verizon; 14 eyebrow-raising things Google knows about you - Some are fascinating, others are frightening -- but here's how to find out what Google has on you;13 Ways Policy And Politics Stole Your Privacy In 2016; How to securely erase hard drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs); Guide for Cybersecurity Event Recovery;

Wellness Resources Part I (1 - 5) Who's Happier: People Who Hook Up, or Those in Relationships; The 10 Most Surprising Sex Statistics; Conflict Resolution Skills For A Healthy Relationship: Focus On The Future, Says Study; 12 Good Things That Can Go Bad; 7 Secrets of Healthy People; The 8 Most Dangerous Types of Relationships to Steer Clear Of;

Writing 21 Brutal, Honest And Relatable Things That Happened In Academic Publishing, Publish AND perish?; How to Defeat Your Most Dangerous Writing Habit: 7 Ways to Lift 'The Curse of Knowledge'; 13 Hilarious Memes About the Importance of Grammar; The 34 Best Tools for Improving Your Writing Skills; Grammar Police: 30 of the Most Common Grammatical Errors We All Need to Stop Making; The Ultimate Collection of Free Content Marketing Templates; The predatory publishing phenomenon: dead end or just an inconvenience on the road to a new scholarly publishing landscape?; Why science news embargoes are bad for the public; New section: Fake News; How to spot it lies, 'fake news' and propaganda; How Academia, Google Scholar And Predatory Publishers Help Feed Academic Fake News; The Ultimate List of Websites Every Blogger Should Bookmark;

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Academic Resources Education Pays 2016
The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society; How much workers (35 - 44) earn by education level; The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan�s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking; Want to be a better critical thinker? Here�s how to spot false narratives and �weaponized lies�; Information avoidance: From health to politics, people select their own reality;

Sweet illusions: Get the facts on diabetes; Tips to Help You Stay Healthy with Diabetes; Five Questions to Ask Your Health Care Team about Managing Your Type 2 Diabetes Infographic; Glycemic index and diabetes; Management of Type 2 Diabetes in 2017 - Getting to Goal;

Epidemiology A- L John Snow: A Legacy of Disease Detectives; How the "ghost map" helped end a killer disease;

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about... Flying Saucers to Mind Control: 22 Declassified Military &amp CIA Secrets; Remembering the Apollo 1 Fire (Infographic); A Brief History of Productivity: How Getting Stuff Done Became an Industry; Aurora Borealis: What Causes the Northern Lights & Where to See Them; The Tangled History of Big Bang Science; Going Bananas: The Real Story of Kepler, Copernicus and the Church; The Nostalgia Pendulum: A Rolling 30-Year Cycle of Pop Culture Trends;

Favorite Movie Sites 25 Greatest Gangster Movies of All Time; The 33 Best Romantic Comedies of All Time; The Shy Edwardian Filmmaker Who Showed Nature's Secrets to the World; The Most Overrated Oscar Best-Picture Winners @Thrillist; The Best Movies of 2016, Ranked @Thrillist; A Monster-Sized Breakdown of Every Insane 'Godzilla' Movie @Thrillist;

Favorite Music Sites LSD May Help Reveal What Makes Music Meaningful; Science Says Guitar Players� Brains Are Actually Different From Everybody Else�s; Happy notes, happy memories; Study notes how musical cues trigger different autobiographical memories; Your Brain on Music: Why Certain Songs Bring Pleasure; Why Do Songs Get Stuck in Your Head?;4 Unusual Ways Music Can Tune Up the Brain; The 50 Best Modern Songs That Sound Like the 1980s; These Are YouTube's 10 Most Popular Music Videos Ever @Thrillist; Why Giving Up Playing Music When You�ve Grown Up Is Bad For Your Brain;If You Play Any Musical Instruments, Your Brain Is Very Different From Others�;

Health Education Resources Changing Your Habits for Better Health; Can Personality Be Changed?; Psychologists have long debated how flexible someone�s �true� self is; Our Personalities Are Constantly Changing, Even if We Think They�re Not; Self-acceptance could be the key to a happier life, yet it's the happy habit many people practice the least; 13 Bad Habits You Need to Quit Right Away; Recess Planning in Schools: A Guide to Putting Strategies for Recess into Practice;

Maternal Child Health CRISPR �Off Switch� Could Increase Precision Of Gene-Editing Tool; How Scientists Are Trying to Keep Genetic Engineering From Ruining the World; �CRISPR-Cas9: Safeguarding Gene Drives�; Off-Switch for CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing System Discovered; Identifying and Referring Children with Developmental Delays or Disabilities to the Early Intervention Program; Parents� presence when TV viewing with child affects learning ability; Defending Childhood Protect Heal Thrive Report of the Attorney General�s National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence; Inpatient Hospitalization Costs Associated with Birth Defects Among Persons of All Ages � United States, 2013; Birth Defects; Child Welfare Fact Sheets for FFY 2014 State-level stats fact sheets for Child maltreatment, Foster care, Adoption, Relative caregiving; Recommended Immunization Schedule for Children and Adolescents Aged 18 Years or Younger, UNITED STATES, 2017; How Many Genetic Mutations Do I Have?; Low levels of simple chemical associated with aging, DNA damage; DNA repair discovery could lead to drugs to reverse ageing, fight cancer and help space travel; Critical step found in DNA repair, cellular aging;

Nutrition Resources Low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D is associated with higher risk of frequent headache in middle-aged and older men; New section: Food processing Contaminants; Process contaminants in vegetable oils and foods; Ingredient in Nutella may cause cancer, study finds; The Science of Hunger: How to Control It and Fight Cravings; Browned toast and potatoes are 'potential cancer risk', say food scientists; 11 Ways Processed Food Is Different from Real Food; Is Burnt Toast Bad for You? The Science of Cancer and Acrylamide; Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption Is Associated With Change of Visceral Adipose Tissue Over 6 Years of Follow-Up; The One Ingredient Secretly in a Ton of the Seafood You Eat @Thrillist; Vitamin D Deficiency Also called: Hypovitaminosis D, Low Vitamin D; What is MSG? Is it bad for you?; 18 Foods Banned Around the World; What�s in Your Water?; What You Should Know About Processed Meat; New section: Food Allergies; Will This Trigger My Food Allergy?

United States Adolescents' Television, Computer, Videogame, Smartphone, and Tablet Use: Associations with Sugary Drinks, Sleep, Physical Activity, and Obesity; Diet and Weight Loss: The Best Ways to Eat;

Public Health Data Maps Based on Data from 2015 HIV Surveillance Report;Diagnoses of HIV Infection in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2015; HIV Surveillance�Adolescents and Young Adults (through 2015); HIV Surveillance in Urban and Nonurban Areas (through 2015);HIV Incidence: Estimated Annual Infections in the U.S., 2008-2014
Overall and by Transmission Route; AtlasPlus;

Public Health Practice New criteria for accreditation to chart updated course for public health education: Bolstering students; 2016 revised criteria; CEPH Accreditation Criteria; Is It Really 'FDA Approved?'; Social Determinants of Health Recommended Queries; Report finds chemicals in one-third of fast food packaging; Polyfluoroalkyl Chemicals in the U.S. Population: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2003�2004 and Comparisons with NHANES 1999�2000;

Public Health Sites A - C Gambling addiction triggers the same brain areas as drug and alcohol cravings; Autoimmunity and infections: When the body fights itself; Denial of Petition to Initiate Proceedings to Reschedule Marijuana; New research might explain why you get so hungry when you're drunk; The great unknown: Risk-taking behaviour in adolescents; Alcohol�s Effects on Immunity�Increasing the Risks for Infection and Injury; Powdered Alcohol;Alcohol Use Screening (AUDIT-C) - Instructions;

Public Health Sites D-G Is there such a thing as an emotional hangover? Researchers find that there is; Snowstorms & Extreme Cold; These Photos Show How Heroin, Cocaine and Oxycodone Change Your Appearance Over Time; Researchers reveal connection between female estrogen cycle, addictive potential of cocaine; Basic Information about Lead in Drinking Water; Panel studies the good, bad and unknowns of marijuana�s health effects; Lead (Pb) Air Pollution; Lead and Your Baby; U.S. Report Cites the Good and Bad on Marijuana; In US, More Adults Identifying as LGBT; Why Sex Is Mostly Binary but Gender Is a Spectrum; New section: Ice Storms; What Ice Storm Accumulations Mean and How to Stay Safe; Winter Storm Safety Tips and Resources; Ice storm aftermath: Staying safe during power outages; wikiHow to Prepare for a Winter Storm; Rates of Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Heroin,* by Selected Age Groups � United States, 2006�2015;Fluorinated Compounds in U.S. Fast Food Packaging; Researchers: Fast food wrapped in chemically treated paper linked to cancers, thyroid disease; 2017 Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals Updated Tables, January 2017, Volume One; Here's Why Synthetic Marijuana Isn't Safe; 9 Weird Ways You Can Test Positive for Drugs; EPA: Fracking activities can put drinking water at risk due to toxicity;Syphilis &amp MSM (Men Who Have Sex With Men) - CDC Fact Sheet; How Do Hallucinogens Work?; Opiate Use Red Flags; New evidence about the dangers of Monsanto's Roundup; EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto �Kill� Cancer Study; Weed-Whacking Herbicide Proves Deadly to Human Cells; Monsanto Weed Killer Roundup Faces New Doubts on Safety in Unsealed Documents; EPA deputy accused of working with Monsanto to kill cancer study; Roundup's active ingredient facing wave of legal challenges as alleged carcinogen; IARC Monographs Volume 112: evaluation of five organophosphate insecticides and herbicides; Medical Alert! Climate Change Is Harming Our Health; 10 Ways the EPA Has Protected Earth and You;Guideline Resources: Patient & Partner Tools; Greenland Ice Sheet Today;

Public Health Sites M - N Six surprising sources of stress � and how to do away with them; Directory of Domestic and Gender Violence Programs Serving Asians and Pacific Islanders - September 2016; Biological changes could underlie higher psychosis risk in immigrants; 7 Ways Depression Differs in Men and Women; Everything You Need to Know About Testicular Cancer; Why Are Most People Right-Handed?; 10 Things You Never Knew About PTSD; To Clear Negative Thoughts, Physically Throw Them Away: Study; Bothered by Negative, Unwanted Thoughts? Just Throw Them Away; Depression Is Not One-Size-Fits-All, And Neither Is The Treatment; Seasonal Affective Disorder; 10 Mental Illness Myths You Shouldn�t Believe; Creative People Have Better-Connected Brains; Asian Smokers' Quitline; Depression Screening (PHQ-9) Online;Causes and Treatment of Low Back Pain; 10 of the Most Common Adult Behavioral Disorders; New section: Behavioral Addictions; Introduction to Behavioral Addictions; 5 Types of Depression You Should Know About; A Visual Guide to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome; How Fast Will Your Brain Age? Scientists Identify Key Gene TMEM106B;

Public Health Sites O-Z New section: Stuttering; Stuttering linked to reduced blood flow in area of brain associated with language; CDC STD Fact Sheets; You Can't See This (MIND TRICKS); Thyroid disease; What Your Eyes Say About Your Health; Uncommon Mouth Disorders; Handout on Health: Back Pain 8/2016;It�s STD Awareness Month. So Here Are Some Scary STD Stats & Facts For You!;Preventing Suicide: A Technical Package of Policy, Programs, and Practices; Trends in Suicide by Level of Urbanization � United States, 1999�2015;9 of the Absolute Worst Foods for Your Skin;

Sleep Duration and Injury-Related Risk Behaviors Among High School Students � United States, 2007�2013; Age-adjusted percentage of adults who reported ≥7 hours of sleep per 24-hour period, by state � Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, United States, 2014; What Really Works When You�re Too Anxious To Fall Asleep; Trouble sleeping? Maybe it's your iPad; Microsoft's big data-like study on sleep proves what doctors already know
The company finds out what every doctor knows: Sleep deprivation takes its toll; Scary Ways Technology Affects Your Sleep; Chronic sleep deprivation suppresses immune system; The Role of Sleep in Health NIH.gov 68-minute video; How Much Sleep Do I Need?; How Sleep Resets the Brain;Why Is Sleep Important?; Sleepy Teens 4.5 Times More Likely to Commit Crimes as Adults; Science Says Your Lack Of Sleep Is Making You A Miserable Person; Here�s A Horrifying Picture Of What Sleep Loss Will Do To You; Spring Ahead Without Car Accidents and Misery - Sleep Tips for DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME;

Social Media How to Get More Followers on Instagram: A Guide to Earning Your First 1,000 Followers; Social Media Fact Sheet; Facebook Tinkers With Users� Emotions in News Feed Experiment, Stirring Outcry; 4 Negative Effects of Using Facebook Too Much; Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks; On Digital Dating: Never Committing, And Never Breaking Up; Does Facebook affect our self-esteem, sense of belonging?; 5 Reasons Why You Should Stop Using Facebook; Facebook Is Using You; One in five young people lose sleep over social media; How social media is crippling democracy, and why we seem powerless to stop it; Twitter, Instagram, Vine: Fast track to nitwit; Why we underestimate time when we're having fun on Facebook; Tech's Relationship With Depression, Suicide and Asperger's;Can Your Phone Change Your Personality? Research Says Yes; Social Comparison May Lead To Depressive Symptoms. These Mantras Are Here To Alleviate That; How Facebook Makes Us Unhappy; Facebook use linked to depressive symptoms; The 2017 Facebook Image Sizes Cheat Sheet [Infographic]; Twitter Analytics: A Guide for Marketers; Audit This: Why It Matters Where You Put Google Analytics Code; Finding Credibility Clues on Twitter - Millions of tweets analyzed to measure perceived trustworthiness; Like or Unlike? Facebook May Harm Health; Social Media Use in Teens Linked to Poor Sleep, Anxiety; College Students 'Addicted' to Social Media, Study Finds; Cyberbullying on Social Media Linked to Teen Depression; Cyberbullies and Victims Suffer Physical and Mental Toll; Cyberbullying Rampant for Lesbian and Gay Teens; 10 Things Your Social Media Profile Says About You; Why we underestimate time when we're having fun on Facebook; How to Keep Up With Social Media News & Trends; Social Media Are Driving Americans Insane; The Stories Behind 5 Social Networks That Never Caught On; Feeling Lonely? Too Much Time On Social Media May Be Why; Too Much Social Media Use Linked to Feelings of Isolation; The more you're on Facebook, the more isolated you feel; Why We Can�t Look Away From Our Screens; More social connection online tied to increasing feelings of isolation; Social media and social isolation; Smartphone interruptions: Are yours relentless and annoying? Study reveals that personality traits influence, help predict receptiveness to smartphone notifications; SEO Cheat Sheet for Facebook, Yelp, Pinterest, Etsy, and Google [Infographics]; Can Social Media Leave You Socially Isolated?; 20 YouTube Tricks, Hacks & Features You'll Want to Know About; The State of Social Media Demographics: 2017 Benchmarks [Infographic]; Getting to Know the Ghost: The Complete Beginners Guide to Snapchat; Instagram Analytics Guide: How to Pull & Examine Your Data; LinkedIn Analytics: A Guide for Marketers;
Understanding bounce rate in Google Analytics; How to Analyze Your Instagram Marketing: 4 Metrics to Consider;

Statistical Functions Lies, Damned Lies, and P Values; The age of analytics: Competing in a data-driven world; Using Statistics Ethically to Combat �A Scientific Credibility Crisis�; How to Use Hashtags on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram; Hashing Out Hashtags: What They Are & How to Use Them [Infographic]; A Brief History of Snapchat;

Temperament Trait-Reputation-Identity (TRI); New personality model sets up how we see ourselves, and how others see us; The 4 Worst Types of Bosses and How to Handle Them; Can Your Phone Change Your Personality? Research Says Yes; Can Personality Be Changed?; Psychologists have long debated how flexible someone�s �true� self is;
Our Personalities Are Constantly Changing, Even if We Think They�re Not;
Here's what it says about your personality if you're constantly checking your phone; 8 small things you do that people use to judge your personality; What are the really small things that tell a lot about a person's psychology and personality?; What Your Handwriting Says About Your Personality; Job Advice: 5 Personality Traits That Can Boost Your Career; Job Stability? 5 Types of Employees That Companies Don�t Want Anymore; Overwhelming Majority of Companies Say Soft Skills Are Just as Important as Hard Skills, According to a New CareerBuilder Survey; Which Personality Traits Are Most Predictive of Well-Being?; How the structure of your brain influences your personality;

Characteristics of Electronic Cigarette Use Among Middle and High School Students � United States, 2015; Quitting Smoking Among Adults � United States, 2000�2015; The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control; Health consequences of smoking; Health consequences of secondhand smoking; The Prohibition of Distributing Free Samples of Tobacco Products Guidance for Industry DRAFT GUIDANCE; New section: Chemicals in Tobacco; Chemicals in Cigarettes: From Plant to Product to Puff; Harmful and Potentially Harmful Constituents (HPHCs); Harmful and Potentially Harmful Constituents in Tobacco Products and Tobacco Smoke: Established List; Regular E-Cigarette Use Associated with CVD Risk Markers Vaping shows physiological effects similar to smoking, not attributable to nicotine; E-Cigarette Use Among Youth and
Young Adults A Report of the Surgeon General; E-Cigarettes and Young People: A Public Health Concern; Talk with Your Teen About E-cigarettes: A Tip Sheet for Parents; Study adds to evidence that electronic cigarettes are not harmless; Survey: 'Dripping' Common Among Teen E-Cig Users - Practice produces thicker vapor clouds, more volatile aldehydes; "Direct Dripping": A High-Temperature, High-Formaldehyde Emission Electronic Cigarette Use Method; This Man Is An Athlete In The Sport Of �Cloud Chasing�; 'Dripping' may be a new, dangerous trend for teens who vape; E-Cigarettes and �Dripping� Among High-School Youth;
E-Cigarettes Deliver Harmful Chemicals, Report Finds; E-cigarette use as a predictor of cigarette smoking: results from a 1-year follow-up of a national sample of 12th grade students; Vaping May Be 'One-Way Bridge' to Cigarettes for Teens Surveyed e-cig users had diminished view of smoking harms; Smokeless Tobacco: Health Effects;

Useful Sites Global Etiquette Rules: Why You Should Take Your Shoes Off in Japan; These national parks will offer free admission for 10 days in 2017; 7 things to avoid touching in a hotel room; Airplane Etiquette: The Most Annoying Passenger Behavior; Military Packing Secrets That Will Make You a Better Traveler @Thrillist; Ranking the Most Dangerous Countries for American Tourists;

Webmastering Tools 63 Web Design Terms Every Marketer Should Know; Fonts &amp Feelings: Does Typography Connote Emotions?; 375,000 Pieces of Art You Can Use Without Restrictions; 28 Places to Download Free Images for Websites and Blogs; The Do's and Don'ts of Infographic Typography [Free Guide]; Decoding Video Infographic; Don't Make Them Wait: How to Reduce Page Weight on Your Website;

Web Resources New section: Machine Learning; Machine learning: The smart person's guide; 30 security terms you need to know to protect yourself online; The nonsense � and danger � behind the algorithm economy; The top zero day Dark Web markets; Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity; Cybersecurity Framework; New section: Voice Assistants; 7 Scary Reasons You Shouldn�t Use Siri or Google Assistant; How much RAM does your PC need? Probably less than you think; Spora: The new ransomware that hijacks your computer; What is behind far too many security leaks? Laziness; Your Cell Phone Is Changing Your Personality; Does your smartphone make you less likely to trust others?; World's Biggest Data Breaches; It�s All In The Cards;Crash: how computers are setting us up for disaster; Over four billion data records were stolen in 2016; Artificial Intelligence: Legal, ethical, and policy issues;Essential Artificial Intelligence Glossary for Marketers; History of the Web; A Little History of the World Wide Web; Invention of the PC; 5 shocking new threats to your personal data; 10 Things Your Social Media Profile Says About You; No hype, just fact: Artificial intelligence in simple business terms; Data Breach Digest; akamai�s [state of the internet] / security Q4 2016 report; How 'artificial swarm intelligence' uses people to make better predictions than experts; Hacker Shows How Easy It Is To Hack People While Walking Around in Public; Why Nothing Works Anymore,Technology has its own purposes; Understanding the differences between AI, machine learning, and deep learning; Machine learning: The smart person's guide;Tax Identity Theft;Are smartphones killing the art of face-to-face conversation? We ask the experts;The Black Report: Attacking your system, from the hacker perspective; Amazon S3: The smart person's guide; Ransomware: An executive guide to one of the biggest menaces on the web; SSD vs. HDD: What's the Difference?; It's time to face the ugly reality of face recognition; Internet of Things security: What happens when every device is smart and you don't even know it?; Look before you leap: 4 hard truths about IoT - Data errors, security holes and rapidly changing standards are among the pitfalls to know about; Worm on the sensor: What happens when IoT data is bad?; How to make IoT in the home more secure: Assume the worst; Your Ultimate Guide To Making Your Pinterest Pins Searchable; Online security 101: Tips for protecting your privacy from hackers and spies; What the Public Knows About Cybersecurity; Tempted by the dark side? Here's what you need to know about the Dark Web; Ranking Online Digital Rights; Kaleidoscope on the Internet of Toys; When you move to the cloud, don't fall asleep on cybersecurity: A 6-part checklist from IBM;

Wellness Resources Part I (1 - 5) Online Dating: The Do�s and Don�ts Everyone Needs to Know; Which Personality Traits Are Most Predictive of Well-Being?; 13 Scientifically Proven Signs You're in Love; Moving Out After a Breakup: 10 Ways to Make It as Painless as Possible; The Role of Sleep in Health; NIH.gov 68-minute video; College Women's Health;

Writing Fake news invades science and science journalism as well as politics; Medical research coverage often contains too few independent, conflict-free comments; Time for change in science journalism?; Fake Medical Journals Are Spreading, And They Are Filled With Bad Science; How to quickly spot dodgy science; Therapeutic Touch Pseudoscience: The Tooth Fairy Strikes Again; Therapy Babble Hyperbolic, messy, pseudoscientific theories about therapy are all too common; Vanity and predatory academic publishers are corrupting the pursuit of knowledge; Predatory publishers criticised for 'unethical, unprincipled' tactics; Joke Science Papers Get Less Funny Every Year; The Ethics of Sarcastic Science; Literallyunbelievable.org; It's not just politics: 2016 was an epidemic year for fake news in science, too; Effective Note-Writing: A Primer for Psychiatry Residents; New section: Vocabulary; Moist. Probe. Crevice: Why Do We Hate Certain Words?; New section: Journaling; If You Want Better Mental Health, You Should Use Your Journal In This Way; How to Write a Case Study: The Ultimate Guide & Template; How to Create a Writing Style Guide Built for the Web [Free Template]; New section: Editing; The Ultimate Online Editing and Proofreading Checklist; Got �significosis?� Here are the five diseases of academic publishing; Identifying Predatory or Pseudo-Journals; AWS typo gaffe isn't the first, or last in technology; History is littered with typo miscues that led to major tech outages, mixups and lots of losses; The Typo that Destroyed a NASA Rocket;

April - June 2017

New Pages

Fall 2017 Syllabus

Updated Pages

Academic Resources How Our Brains Trick Us into Believing the Wrong Things; Information avoidance: From health to politics, people select their own reality; New section: Listening Skills; 6 Phrases to Demonstrate Active Listening -- at Work, or Elsewhere; People�s preferences for complex explanations (new study); When students pay attention in class, their brains are in sync; In This Noisy World, Kids Really Need Critical Thinking; OECD.org: United States- Results of 2012 PISA Study; 10 Tips for Teaching Kids to Be Awesome Critical Thinkers; 50 Soft Skills for Lifelong Happiness and Success; Critical thinking can be taught; Factors that lead to greater college success; Building Mental Toughness Off the Field; Building mental toughness off the field: It's all about practice; Science fact: Your smartphone really is making you dumber; Pay attention: Practice can make your brain better at focusing;

RAND Corporation: Multiple Chronic Conditions in the United States; Childhood intelligence in relation to major causes of death in 68 year follow-up: prospective population study;

FDA Stiffens Warning on NSAID Cardiovascular Risk; Labels to get more specific on heart attack and stroke risks All Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Have Cardiovascular Risks; Common painkillers linked to increased risk of heart attack, study says; Non-aspirin Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs): Drug Safety Communication - FDA Strengthens Warning of Increased Chance of Heart Attack or Stroke; Public Health Advisory - FDA Announces Important Changes and Additional Warnings for COX-2 Selective and Non-Selective Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs); Use of Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs - An Update for Clinicians: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association; Risk of acute myocardial infarction with NSAIDs in real world use: bayesian meta-analysis of individual patient data;
'Heart attack risk' for common painkillers; Common NSAID painkillers linked to higher risk of heart attack; FDA issues strong heart attack, stroke warning for common painkillers; Could these common painkillers increase heart risk?;Chronic anabolic steroid use may damage heart, arteries;How Your Education Level May Be Linked to Your Risk of Heart Disease; Beyond Vegetables and Exercise: 5 Surprising Ways to Be Heart Healthy;Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease
A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association;

9 Unexpected Stroke Symptoms You Need to Know; Heart Devices 101: Guide to the Tools That Keep You Ticking; WHO classifies stroke as neurological disease;Understanding Heart Disease -- Diagnosis and Treatment; What You Need to Know About Stroke; What You Need to Know About Stroke;Cardiac Arrest:
An Important Public Health Issue;

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about... The Hunt for the Very First Stars Is Taking Us Back to the Moon; What is Dark Matter?; NASA Image and Video Library; Cassini's Grand Finale; Cassini's First Grand Finale Dive: Milestones; Cassini at Saturn; 50 Soft Skills for Lifelong Happiness and Success; Names.org; Planet Classification: How to Group Exoplanets;

Favorite Movie Sites Inside the Science of Fictional Treknology; The 30 Greatest, Straight-Up Ass-Kicking Action Movies of the Century @Thrillist; 15 Actors Who Always Play the Villain; 25 of the Best Action Movies of All Time; Our taste in movies is highly idiosyncratic, and at odds with critics' preferences; The Biggest Movie From the Year You Were Born @Thrillist;

Fitness Feel Down? Get Up�Emotional Benefits of Exercise; Emotional Benefits of Exercise Infographic; How walking benefits the brain - Researchers show that foot's impact helps control, increase the amount of blood sent to the brain; Staying Active at Any Size; The New Science of Exercise;

Graphing visual-content-marketing-statistics;Florence Nightingale Was Born 197 Years Ago, and Her Infographics Were Better Than Most of the Internet�s; 22 free tools for data visualization and analysis; Got data? These useful tools can turn it into informative, engaging graphics; The of Data-Driven Decision-Making;

Kids Health Cyberbullying Associated with Depression and Dissociation in Teens; Secrets You Never Knew About Your Cat; 9 Weird Ways Kids Can Get Hurt;

Maternal Child Health Pregnancy Week by Week; Foster or Adopted Children Who Have Been Sexually Abused; Essentials for Childhood framework; Child Abuse Prevention; What Is CRISPR?; DNA Fingerprinting; State School and Childcare Vaccination Laws; Tips for Talking With and Helping Children and Youth Cope After a Disaster or Traumatic Event:
A GUIDE FOR PARENTS, CAREGIVERS, AND TEACHERS; Undermining Genetic Privacy? Employee Wellness Programs and the Law;What Both the Left and Right Get Wrong About Race - Setting the scientific record straight on race, IQ, and success;

Nutrition Resources 6 Foods That Could Increase Your Dementia Risk (and What to Eat Instead); Facts About Trans Fats; Avoid These 10 Foods Full of Trans Fats; Omega-3 Fatty Acids Fact Sheet for Consumers; Safety evaluation of certain food additives and contaminants; Diet soda study looks at dementia, heart risks; 10 Reasons to Give Up Diet Soda - Find out why zero-calorie drinks may be doing you more harm than good;
Diet Coke Exposed: What Happens One Hour After Drinking Diet Coke, Coke Zero Or Any Other Similar Diet Soda; 5 serious health risks of drinking diet soda; Sugar- and Artificially Sweetened Beverages and the Risks of Incident Stroke and Dementia - A Prospective Cohort Study; New Worries About Energy Drinks
Research continues to suggest that ingredients in these beverages may harm your heart; What that energy drink can do to your body; Energy Drinks May Give the Heart an Unhealthy Jolt; A Visual Guide to Understanding Eating Disorders; Food Labels Survey - 2016 Nationally-Representative Phone Survey; Food label terms;GMOs 2.0 Ingredients Database! (Beta);9 Popular Foods That Are Still Sneakily Hiding Trans Fats; Low-Carb Vegetables � the Best and the Worst; Fun Facts About Fruits and Vegetables; How Farmers Turn Their Salmon Pink; Fish Faceoff: Wild Salmon vs. Farmed Salmon Debating the health benefits and risks;11 Ways Processed Food Is Different from Real Food; 'Ultraprocessed' Foods Make Up More Than Half of Americans' Diets; New section: Bad oils; Which Everyday Products Contain Palm Oil?; Sorry, coconut oil isn�t actually good for you, heart docs say; Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association; 3 Supplements That Actually Work�and 3 That Are Just Wasting Your Money; SNACK F.A.C.T.S. Food Advertising to Children and Teens Score 2015;

About-Face on 'Obesity Paradox': Extra Fat Does Raise Risk of Death; Carrying Some Extra Pounds May Not Be Good After All; Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Among Children and Adolescents Aged 2�19 Years: United States, 1963�1965 Through 2013�2014; Trends in obesity among children and adolescents aged 2�19 years, by age: United States, 1963�1965 through 2013�2014; Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years;

Public Health Data Alcohol Poisoning Deaths; WHO's Essential Health Services; Drugs Most Frequently Involved in Drug Overdose Deaths:United States, 2010�2014; Women of Childbearing Age and Opioids; Prescription Drug Use and Misuse in the United States: Results from the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health; Underage Drinking Statistics; Patient Characteristics of Opioid-Related Inpatient Stays and Emergency Department
Visits Nationally and by State, 2014; Drug Use, Dependence, and Abuse
Among State Prisoners and Jail Inmates, 2007-2009;

Public Health Practice From opium to fentanyl: How did we get here?; WHO's Essential Health Services; 9 Tips for Crafting Effective Media Bites; Communicating for Change, Shaping Public Debate with Framing and Messages;

Public Health Sites A - C The Power of the Adolescent Brain: Full Video; Alcohol poisoning infographic; For Parents: What to Look For if your child is using drugs; Alcohol Abuse Fact Sheet;
Pediatric HIV Surveillance; What Harms the Young Heart Also Hurts the Brain Later - High blood pressure, smoking in teens tied to worse mental functioning at mid-life, study finds; Is 'Internet Addiction' Real?; More than a third of teenage girls experience depression, new study says; Moderate alcohol consumption as risk factor for adverse brain outcomes and cognitive decline: longitudinal cohort study; White matter integrity pre- and post marijuana and alcohol initiation in adolescence; Moderate drinking may alter brain, study says; Behavioral and Clinical Characteristics of Persons Receiving Medical Care for HIV Infection Medical Monitoring Project 2014 Cycle (June 2014�May 2015);

Public Health Sites D-G The New Face of Heroin: An Investigative Series in Four Parts; A seismic mapping milestone
Team produces 3-D map of Earth's interior; Quality of Life and Cannabis Use: Results from Canadian Sample Survey Data; Tracking hazardous chemicals from fast-food wrappers in the body; Here�s What Experts Know About How Marijuana Affects Your Body; Exposure to BPA Substitute, BPS, Multiplies Breast Cancer Cells; Global Climate Report - December 2016; Yale Climate Opinion Maps � U.S. 2016; Yearly temperature anomalies from 1880 to 2014; Here's What Happens During a Fentanyl Overdose; Prince's Death: Why It's So Easy to Overdose on Painkillers; Characteristics of Fentanyl Overdose � Massachusetts, 2014�2016; The Emotional Intelligence Test: What's Your Emotional IQ? [Quiz]; Carfentanil [INN] Toxnet Profile; New section: Drugged Driving; Drugs Now Involved in More Fatal U.S. Crashes Than Alcohol Alone - Study suggests deaths due to drugged driving are rising as states legalize pot and drug abuse grows; Impaired driving; The 16 scariest maps from the E.U.�s massive new climate change report; Prescription Drug Abuse Fact Sheet; Infographics on health and climate change; Climate change: How do we know?; Climate Change Knowlege; WHO Climate Change and health infographics; Particle Pollution; ER visits related to marijuana use at a Colorado hospital quadruple after legalization - More than half of teens' marijuana-related visits also involved psychiatric evaluations; Images of Warming: National Parks in 2050 Posters; �Gray death,� the drug that looks like concrete, kills in one dose; What Is Gray Death? The Killer Drug Cocktail Is Latest Battle in War Against Opioids; Gray Death: The Most Powerful New Opioid Combo That's Risky Even To Touch; Hurricane Preparedness Week 2017; Interactive website helps to reduce dizziness; Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy (VRT); Researchers Test How to Accurately Assess Use of New Psychoactive Drugs such as �Bath Salts�; How to accurately assess use of new psychoactive drugs such as 'bath salts' - 'Bath salt' use underreported, study reveals; New York Times Climate Change Special Report; Fentanyl, the opioid so potent it can cause an overdose through accidental contact, explained; The opioid painkiller and heroin epidemic, explained; Acetyl Fentanyl Overdose Fatalities � Rhode Island, March�May 2013; Recommendations for laboratory testing for acetyl fentanyl and patient evaluation and treatment for overdose with synthetic opioids; Prescribing Data;
Opioid Addiction 2016 Facts & Figures; The Role of Science in Addressing the Opioid Crisis; Fentanyl Crisis: DEA Issues Guideline for First Responders Dealing With Deadly Drug; What Is Fentanyl? The Drug That Killed Prince Has Killed Thousands of Others;Allergy medications: Know your options; The Prescription Medications Most Parents Don�t Realize Their Kids Are Misusing; Opioid Basics; Bisphenol A (BPA): Use in Food Contact Application; Why You Shouldn�t Drink That Water You Found in the Car; Teen cannabis use and illicit drug use in early adulthood linked; Hepatitis: What Puts You at Risk; 8 Signs of Emotional Intelligence in Leadership; 3 New Dangerous Drug Habits in Teens | New Drug Trend in Kids;5 key findings about LGBT Americans key findings about LGBT Americans; The opioid crisis changed how doctors think about pain; Substance Name: Glyphosate [ANSI:BSI:ISO]; 5 facts about same-sex marriage; Surveillance for Viral Hepatitis � United States, 2015; OMG Mission - Greenland�s Ice Melting Faster Than Previously Thought (Video);

Public Health Sites H-L What is Kidney Disease?; When to Worry About Ringing in Your Ears; World Health Statistics 2016: Monitoring health for the SDGs; Surprising And Sobering: 7 Facts About Global Health; 2015 Kidney Disease Statistics; Why You Have Tinnitus; Think Before You Ink: Are Tattoos Safe?; From Millennials to Baby Boomers, U.S. Adults Say Public Places Are Too Noisy; A Guide to Comprehensive Hepatitis C Counseling and Testing; In �Enormous Success,� Scientists Tie 52 Genes to Human Intelligence; Researchers find dozens of genes associated with measures of intelligence, Lots of genes, but a cumulatively small impact;A Loud Warning: Millions of People Do Not Protect Their Ears; 15 Things That Can Make Tinnitus Worse;

Public Health Sites M - N 5 Things You Should Know About Stress; Stress symptoms: Effects on your body and behavior; Mental Health Screening Tools; Mindfulness just as effective as CBT for a broad range of psychiatric symptoms; Mindfulness just as effective as CBT for a broad range of psychiatric symptoms (Lund University); Myths and Facts About Therapy; New section: Mindfulness; The heady benefits of mindfulness in the workplace; New section: Personality Disorders; Alert: If You Always Avoid Things You Fear, You May Have This Issue; The One Thing That Is More Important Than Social Needs: Self Actualization; Borderline Personality Disorder; Any Personality Disorder; Antisocial Personality Disorder; Becoming 'brain aware' to calm chaos, boost productivity; Intel experiments with mindfulness to combat digital overload;Distortions and deceptions in strategic decisions; What�s Wrong With My Shoulder?; Autism Spectrum Disorder;Why You Forget: 5 Strange Facts About Memory; Depression Fact Sheet; Anxiety Fact Sheet; Racial Disparities in Age-Specific Mortality Among Blacks or African Americans � United States, 1999�2015; Depression: FDA-Approved Medications May Help; The Facts on Bipolar Disorder and FDA-Approved Treatments; 12 Signs Your Mood Swings Could Actually Be Bipolar Disorder; Does the Heart Have a Sense of Smell?; Acute stress alters individual risk taking in a time-dependent manner and leads to anti-social risk; Brain Scans Spot Where Fear and Anxiety Live Unusually large 'striatum' is linked to inability to cope with uncertainty, research shows; HIV & Intimate Partner Violence Among Asian American and Pacific Islander Women; HIV &amp Intimate Partner Violence Among Asian American and Pacific Islander Women Presentation Slides and Fact Sheet; Does the Brain Use More Energy During Particular Activities?; 11 Mental Health Disorders That Are 100% Misunderstood; As Brains Mature, More Robust Information Networks Boost Self-Control; What is the Mandela Effect? We explain the causes of false memories; Half of adults with anxiety or depression report chronic pain; The Scientific Explanation on Why We Attract What We Are; Why Men Don�t Live as Long as Women; Guide to Testicular Cancer; Ways to Avoid Erectile Dysfunction; HIV Among Asians in the United States; HIV Among Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders in the United States; Men�s Health Month - Helping Men Stay On Top of Their Game; Breast Cancer in Men: Treatments and Genetic Counseling; Being Defensive, how Psychotherapy Sees You; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; Men and Mental Health;

Public Health Sites O-Z State-Specific Rates of Primary and Secondary Syphilis Among Men Who Have Sex with Men � United States, 2015; Prevalence of HPV in Adults Aged 18�69: United States, 2011�2014;Congenital Syphilis - CDC Fact Sheet; Congenital syphilis; Congenital syphilis infographic; Syphilis in pregnancy;Protect your baby from syphilis; It�s STD Awareness Month. So Here Are Some Scary STD Stats & Facts For You!; STD Prevention Infographics; Lowdown on STD Prevention; CDC Fact Sheets; It's Your Future, You Can Protect It - Teen Condom Fact Sheet; 13 REASONS WHY Talking Points; CDC Call to Action - Let�s Work Together to Stem the Tide of Rising Syphilis in the United States; How Effective are Condoms?; People Smell Great! Human Sniffers Sensitive as Dogs'; Testing sense of smell may give early warning of Alzheimer's risk; Hidden consequences of olfactory dysfunction: a patient report series; Effects of ageing on smell and taste; How We Smell;

Public Health Software National Environmental Health Tracking Network; Traveling Back in Time With Colorful Isochrone Maps;

Research Resources on the Net Questionable research practices among italian research psychologists; How many scientists admit to questionable research practices?; How the GOP Could Use Science�s Reform Movement Against It - The principles of openness, transparency, and reproducibility might be weaponized to defund and deny research; 1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility; How much does a retracted result pollute the field?; Reproducibility Issues graphics; Most citations to retracted papers don�t note they�re problematic, authors say; PubMed to Include Conflict-of-Interest Statements with Study Abstracts; 6 things to keep in mind if you read cancer-related news in the next few days; How Rampant is Fabrication in Medical Literature? Inappropriate statistics in new paper may exaggerate the problem; Scientists Screwed Up? Send them to Rehab;

How Time Zones May Affect Cancer Risk; Fixing lousy sleep could keep us healthy longer; Could better sleep prevent gestational diabetes?;Deep sleep may act as fountain of youth in old age; Sleep Is the New Status Symbol; A 'Hot Zone' In The Brain May Reveal When, And Even What, We Dream; Coloured sagittal MRI scans of the human brain. Changes in brain activity offer clues to what the dream is about; Dreaming 'hot zone' found at the back of the brain; Scientists identify parts of brain involved in dreaming; Scientists Can Now Tell If Someone Is Dreaming from Their Brain Waves; Sleep and your Circadian Rhythm;What Are the Signs and Symptoms of Problem Sleepiness?; Healthy Sleep Also called: Sleep Hygiene; The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget, Scientists Say; Chronic sleep deprivation may lead to brain eating itself; Deep Sleep Maintains the Learning Efficiency of the Brain; Sleep Shrinks the Brain�s Synapses to Make Room for New Learning - The process keeps the attic of your mind well organized; When You Eat Can 'Reset' Your Biological Clock; New section: Jet Lag; Why It's Harder to Recover from Jet Lag When You Fly East; The Science of Jet Lag: 5 Surprising Findings; Jet Lag Leaves Kidneys In Another Time Zone; Jet-Lagged Mice More Likely to Die; Understanding of Human Body Clock Reworked; How to Beat Jet Lag: Don't Eat; What Is Jet Lag?; 'Social Jet Lag' Called Potentially Hazardous - Sleeping in on weekends linked to more fatigue, higher CVD risk;

Social Media Who Has the Best (and Worst) LinkedIn Profile Photos?; Big data in social networks; A New, More Rigorous Study Confirms: The More You Use Facebook, the Worse You Feel; 6 New LinkedIn Features You May Have Missed; How Generations X, Y, and Z Consume Video Content [Infographic]; The Multicultural Millennials; No thanks, Facebook: Here's how to permanently delete your account; How technology use affects at-risk adolescents
More use of technology led to increases in attention, behavior and self-regulation problems for adolescents already at risk for mental health issues, new study finds; More Technology Use Linked to Mental Health Issues in At-Risk Adolescents; The Character Count Guide for Blog Posts, Videos, Tweets & More;Don�t Let Facebook Make You Miserable; Instagram worst social media app for young people�s mental health; 'Fuelling a mental health crisis': Instagram worst social network for young people's mental health; Instagram Might Not Be Great For Young People's Mental Health; Twitter is harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol, study finds; In Obvious News: Social Media Sharing Is All About Your Social Cred - Other people's opinions drive what we share on Facebook;
15 Hidden Instagram Hacks & Features Everyone Should Know About; 5 Helpful Insights You Can Find Using Twitter Analytics; What Your Tweets Say About You;Psychological Language on Twitter Predicts County-Level Heart Disease Mortality; Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabulary Approach; Social media as a measurement tool of depression in populations; How to Disable or Permanently Delete an Instagram Account; The Arguments That Are Completely Inappropriate to Have on Twitter; Texting slang; How to Use Twitter Analytics: The Complete Guide for Marketers; Are Other People Allowed to Use My Tweets?; Alone in the crowd: the structure and spread of loneliness in a large social network;

Statistical Functions J-Shaped Curves and Public Health; New section: Methods 101; Methods 101: Random Sampling video; Are Propensity Scores As Good As Randomized Trials? They may not offer much more than multivariable adjustment;How Rampant is Fabrication in Medical Literature? Inappropriate statistics in new paper may exaggerate the problem;

Nicotine and Tobacco In-Depth Report;Tobacco-Product Use by Adults and Youths in the United States in 2013 and 2014; To Your Health
1 in 4 youths exposed to secondhand smoke from e-cigarettes, study shows; How e-cigarettes landed 2 metro Detroiters in burn unit; New section: Thirdhand Smoke; Children of Smokers Carry Tobacco Toxins on Their Hands - Thirdhand smoke exposures high in kids with household cigarette smokers; Tips to Help Avoid "Vape" Battery Explosions; The shadow of Big Tobacco looms over e-cigarettes and harm reduction;Social smoking carries same heart-disease risks as everyday habit
One in 10 Americans screened said they sometimes smoked, study found; Health Warnings;European Commission - Press release - 10 key changes for tobacco products sold in the EU; The new laws on vaping and smoking: All you need to know - The new Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016 comes into force imminently; Philip Morris Products S.A. Modified Risk Tobacco Product (MRTP) Applications; Modified Risk Tobacco Products; Tobacco Use Among Middle and High School Students � United States, 2011�2016; HIV Smokers Twice as Likely to Die from Smoking Than from Disease; HIV Smokers Twice as Likely to Die from Smoking Than from Disease;

Useful Sites Navigating Power of Attorney: How to Help Loved Ones Manage Their Money; Travel Health Slideshow: 25 Ways to Stay Well Abroad; CDC Yellow Book; Tip of My Tongue - Find that word that you've been thinking about all day but just can't seem to remember; Get Help In Emergencies; U.S. Embassies; Foreign Disasters;

Webmastering Tools How to Pick the Perfect Font Pairings for Your Website: 7 Free Tools; Where Can You Find High-Quality Images for Social Media?; 39 Free Tools for Creating Unique Images;

Web Resources How the Human/Computer Interface Works (Infographics); Digital Dividends; Three privacy tools that block your Internet provider from tracking you; HTTPS Everywhere; Big data in industries; Top 5 ways to track data breaches; Breach Portal: Notice to the Secretary of HHS Breach of Unsecured Protected Health Information; What is "brain hacking"? Tech insiders on why you should care; 5 ways robots are vulnerable to cyberattacks;The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI; Bad News: Artificial Intelligence Is Racist, Too; Profiling 10 types of hackers; How to eliminate insider threats; MASSIVE ATTACK - How a weapon against war became a weapon against the web; Technology is great, but are we prepared for the consequences?;
Cyber security breaches survey 2017; New section: Blockchain; FAQ: What is blockchain and how can it help business?; Healthcare, retail industries give blockchain a try; 5 things you should know about the blockchain; You�re Addicted to Your Phone if You Agree with These Statements; Largest Distracted Driving Behavior Study; Distracted Driving;Executive's guide to implementing blockchain technology; An Army of Thousands of Hacked Servers Found Mining Cryptocurrencies; Ways to create secure IoT devices; You Cannot Encrypt Your Face; NSA chief: This is what a worst-case cyber attack scenario looks like; Online security 101: Tips for protecting your privacy from hackers and spies;Net neutrality: The smart person's guide; Indicators Associated With WannaCry Ransomware; WHAT IS WANNACRY/WANACRYPT0R? US-cert.gov fact sheet;Tech Adoption Climbs Among Older Adults; Windows 7, not XP, was the reason last week�s WCry worm spread so widely; Report: The darknet contains a vast treasure trove of stolen Fortune 500 data; A third of Americans live in a household with three or more smartphones; 94% believe unsecured IoT devices could lead to 'catastrophic' cybersecurity attack; Ransomware; Ransomware: Best Practices for Prevention and Response; WannaCry: The smart person's guide; Machine Vision; The Dangerous Texting Slang All Parents Should Know; 7 in 10 smartphone apps share your data with third-party services; The 4 types of cybersecurity threats and a formula to fight them; Six quick facts to know about the Petya global ransomware attack; New section: Malware; Fileless malware: The smart person's guide; Report: 37% of adults at 'serious risk' of being hacked through their IoT devices; 10 facts about smartphones as the iPhone turns 10; WannaCry: The smart person's guide; Internet History Timeline: ARPANET to the World Wide Web;

Writing Automatic Paraphrasing: A Problem for Academia?; How to Use an Writing Cleanroom to Avoid Plagiarism; Debunking the Accidental Plagiarism Excuse; Five reasons blog posts are of higher scientific quality than journal articles; Reputational incentives and post-publication review: two (partial) solutions to the misinformation problem; Data Authorship; New section: Letter Writing; To Whom It May Concern: Do All Formal Letters Have to Start Like This?; When a 'Remix' Is Plain Ole Plagiarism - Digital technologies make it easier for people to copy the work of other artists�yet the same tools make it more likely for them to get caught. 5/2017; The therapeutic value of adolescents� blogging about social�emotional difficulties; The Anatomy of a Perfect Blog Post; The mere presence of your smartphone reduces brain power, study shows;

Career Resources New section: Wage Gap; Wage Gap graphic; America�s Women and the Wage Gap; The Paycheck Fairness Act; The Healthy Families Act; For Equal Pay Day, New State-by-State Analysis Shows Terrible Toll Gender Wage Gap Takes on America�s Women and Families; Recognizing Compassion Fatigue in the Helping Professions; Personality factors are best defense against losing your job to a robot - Personality traits, interest in arts and science predict better job outcomes; 15 Secrets Employers Don�t Want You to Know; These Key Bad Behaviors Drive Your Employer Crazy, But You Can Fix Them; Will Robots Take my Job? Enter your job title and see what the chances are; How to Write a Resume: The Ultimate Checklist of Resume Tips;Competency-Based Job Descriptions;

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Academic Resources The Science behind Relentless Breakthroughs; An Underdeveloped Right Brain Is the Greatest Barrier to Creativity; Think Like Steve Jobs: How Design Thinking Leads to Creativity;
How I Rewired My Brain to Think Like a Designer and Unlock My Creativity;How to Declutter Your Brain and Get Organized; How to Boost Creativity: Secrets of the Creative Brain; How Clutter Drains Your Brain (and What You Can Do About It);
We Don't Need More Stuff, We Need Less (a Lot Less); Twelve Natural Ways to Enhance Brain Power; College Women's Health; Why the Conscientious Mind Is a Successful Mind; Health-Related Behaviors and Academic Achievement Among High School Students � United States, 2015; Health & Academics;

HDL Cholesterol: The Good Cholesterol; Ozone Pollution Connected to Cardiovascular Health; Never Buy These Deadly �Heart-Healthy� Foods; Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Cardiovascular Disease: Current State of the Evidence; Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Cardiovascular Disease: A Review of the Research for Adults; Treatment of Cholesterol in 2017;

Chinese Culture How The White Establishment Waged A 'War' On Chinese Restaurants In The U.S.; How White America Tried to Eliminate Chinese Restaurants in the Early 1900s; How a Chinatown-by-the-Sea Popped Up on the Jersey Shore; Americans of Chinese Heritage with Heavy Southern Accents in Mississippi; E. Samantha Cheng: Discovering the Mississippi Delta Chinese Legacy;A Chinese perspective on autumn;

Consumer Health Can Your Swimming Spot Make You Sick?; Making Water Safe in an Emergency; Disinfecting Wells After a Disaster;

Cool Sites A- L Half in US choose cremation as views on death change; How to make your landscape photography stand out; How to photograph the solar eclipse: NASA tips for taking pictures of Aug. 21 event;4 secrets: How to take professional photos with your smartphone; Top 5 tips for photographing solar eclipse; How to take the best photos of a solar eclipse: Tips from the pros; Birdnote.org; Could artificial intelligence disrupt the photography world?; How to take video of a solar eclipse: Advice from the experts; Solar Eclipse iPhone Photography: Warnings and Tips; Smartphone Photography of the Eclipse;

National Diabetes Statistics Report, 2017 Estimates of Diabetes and Its Burden in the United States; National Diabetes Statistic Report, 2017; Does Short Sleep Mean Higher T2D Risk for Kids? - An extra hour of sleep tied to reduction in insulin resistance; Lots of red meat and poultry linked to diabetes risk;

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about... Eclipse Across America Map;What to look for in a total solar eclipse; The Day the Sky Goes Dark: August 21, 2017 Total Solar Eclipse; How Earth looks from outer space; This is your brain on art; Carbon calculations say sixth mass extinction looms; The big five mass extinctions;

Favorite Movie Sites Tobacco Use in Top-Grossing Movies � United States, 2010�2016; Tobacco Gets More Screen Time in Blockbuster Movies, Study Shows; Why Smoking in Films Harms Children; Exposure to Movie Smoking: Its Relation to Smoking Initiation Among US Adolescents; Smoke-free Movies; Smoke-free Movies and Media; 50 Best Travel Movies of the Past 50 Years;
Watch full-length movies for free; The 100 Greatest Props in Movie History, and the Stories Behind Them; Tubitv.com; Can Rotten Tomatoes Crush a Movie at the Box Office?; How to Stream Thousands of Free Movies Using Your Library Card;

Favorite Music Sites Learning with music can change brain structure - Using musical cues to learn a physical task significantly develops an important part of the brain, according to a new study; A Global Tour of Remarkable Musical Instruments; Beatles Albums Ranked Worst to Best; Top 50 Beatles Songs; The 1,000 Best Songs on Spotify @Thrillist; Blame it on the bossa nova: How music changes our perception of touch; 16 Sad Songs to Listen to When You Need a Good Cry;

Graphing The Scottish Scoundrel Who Changed How We See Data - When he wasn�t blackmailing lords and being sued for libel, William Playfair invented the pie chart, the bar graph, and the line graph.; How to Create the Best Powerpoint Presentations, With Examples; 10 time-saving tips for speeding your work in PowerPoint;Guidelines for Good Visual Information Representations; Designing for the Mobile Environment � Some Simple Guidelines;

Healthcare Quality Issues Mirror, Mirror 2017: International Comparison Reflects Flaws and Opportunities for Better U.S. Health Care; AHRQ.gov's Health Literacy; Too much information can be a good thing - Psychologists examine how to package health recommendations; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights Breach Portal: Notice to the Secretary of HHS Breach of Unsecured Protected Health Information; What Makes People Like (and Dislike) Their Doctors?;

Bedbugs: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know But Were Too Disgusted to Ask; Antibiotic Use in the United States, 2017: Progress and Opportunities; Ebola detected in semen of survivors two years after infection - Researchers suggest updating WHO guidelines and exploring aging; 14 Diseases You Almost Forgot About (Thanks to Vaccines); Ebola RNA lingers in semen longer than expected;

M - Z Sexual Transmission & Prevention of Zika Virus;Ticks and Travel: What You Need to Know to Prevent Tick Bites and Illnesses; Interim Guidance for Health Care Providers Caring for Pregnant Women with Possible Zika Virus Exposure � United States (Including U.S. Territories), July 2017; Guide to Tick-Borne Diseases;

Kids Health Nearly half of those who have been harassed online know their harasser;

Maternal Child Health If European Borders Were Drawn By DNA Instead Of Ethnicity; DNA copying is more random than we thought;Using CRISPR, scientists efficiently edit genome of viable human embryos; In Breakthrough, Scientists Edit a Dangerous Mutation From Genes in Human Embryos; 4 Associations Between Depression in Parents and Parenting, Child Health, and Child Psychological Functioning; Parental Substance Use and
the Child Welfare System;

Nutrition Resources 20 Ways You Can Get Food Poisoning; New section: Junk Food; How Bad for You Are Fried Foods?; The 40 Unhealthiest Foods if You�re Over 40; EWG�s Dirty Dozen Guide to Food Additives;
The 10 most contaminated foods in your fridge you need to trash right now � and healthier alternatives; Improving Diet Over Time May Reduce Risk of Death
Three healthy diets shared common characteristics; Chronic liver inflammation linked to Western diet - Food, antibiotics, and gender are just some of the factors that can throw off the balance between the gut and liver, according to a new report in The American Journal of Pathology; Artificial Sweeteners Have Little or No Benefit to Health, Researchers Conclude; Artificial Sweeteners May Boost Blood Sugar, Study Finds; Souring on Artificial Sweeteners: Substances May Boost Appetite; Artificial Sweeteners Have Little or No Benefit to Health, Researchers Conclude; How Safe Is Splenda? Group Urges Caution for Artificial Sweetener; The Truth About Aspartame; Chemical Cuisine; The Bitter Side of Diet Soda: Strokes; Acids in Popular Sodas Erode Tooth Enamel; Mediterranean style diet may prevent dementia; Low Calorie Sweeteners Alter Glucose Uptake and Promote Adipogenesis in Human Fat Biopsy-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs) in-Vitro and in Subjects� Subcutaneous Fat; 6 Ways Eating Too Much Sugar Messes With Your Entire Body; Artificial sweeteners: Where do we stand?; Can Skipping Dinner Help You Lose Weight?; What does �natural flavors� really mean?; Diet quality matters not just quantity in mid-to-late-adulthood; Diet May Help Prevent Alzheimer's - MIND diet rich in vegetables, berries, whole grains, nuts; The MIND Diet: A Detailed Guide for Beginners; New section: Microbiome; From ancient tribes to modern civilization, what do our microbiomes say about us?; Federal Microbiome Project Aims to Solve Tiny Riddles of Science; Healthy or Hype? Our Nutrition Expert Decodes the Latest Good-For-You Food Fads;Dietary Supplements Are Poisoning More and More People; This Man Got Hepatitis From His Energy Drinks. How the Heck Does That Even Happen?; The Supplements You Should Stay Away From; Rare cause of acute hepatitis: a common energy drink;You can improve your health in 2 weeks by cutting back on sugar; 8 'Healthy' Foods That Aren�t;Energy-drink consumption may lead to cocaine use, study says; Sweet, low-calorie foods confuse our metabolism; Herbal Supplements You Shouldn�t Try; Eating foods away from home; Is coconut oil healthy?; Sugary Drinks and Obesity Fact Sheet - The Problem: Sugary Drinks Are a Major Contributor to the Obesity Epidemic; Facts on Sugar Drink Consumption; Short-Term Removal of Sugar Reduces Sugar-to-Fat Conversion in Liver; Conversion of Sugar to Fat: Is Hepatic de Novo Lipogenesis Leading to Metabolic Syndrome and Associated Chronic Diseases?; No fads, no gimmicks: 5 food rules that stand the test of time; These Are the Absolute Worst Carbs You Can Eat (and Drink);

Weight Loss Surgery: What to Expect;Can Skipping Dinner Help You Lose Weight?; New section: Overfat; Map of Overfat populations; Study finds 90 percent of American men overfat; Study finds 90 percent of American men overfat; ARE YOU 'OVERFAT'?Girls in the UK and US are FATTEST in the world � here�s how to tell if you�re �overfat�; Study finds most men and women are �overfat� � here�s what this means; 90 Percent Of U.S. Men Have This Problematic Health Condition; Overfat Adults and Children in Developed Countries: The Public Health Importance of Identifying Excess Body Fat; What Causes Obesity? 10 Food Items That Can Cause Excessive Weight Gain; The State of Obesity; Study of Children Ages 10 to 17 (2016); The Fastest Weight Loss Methods � That Actually Work;

Public Health Data Trends in Hospital Inpatient Stays in the United States, 2005-2014; Patient Characteristics of Opioid-Related Inpatient Stays and Emergency Department Visits Nationally and by State, 2014;Emergency Department Visits Related to Suicidal Ideation, 2006-2013;
Changes in Opioid Prescribing in the United States, 2006�2015; Trends in Hospital Inpatient Stays in the United States, 2005-2014; Final Report: Opioid Use, Misuse, and Overdose in Women; Racial and Ethnic Differences in Homicides of Adult Women and the Role of Intimate Partner Violence � United States, 2003�2014; Health Behaviors of Adults: United States, 2008�2010; Opioid Overdose; Annual Surveillance Report of Drug-Related Risks and Outcomes � 2017; Trends in Deaths Involving Heroin and Synthetic Opioids Excluding Methadone, and Law Enforcement Drug Product Reports, by Census Region � United States, 2006�2015; Health-Related Behaviors and Academic Achievement Among High School Students � United States, 2015;

Public Health Data You Live in Alabama. Here�s How You�re Going to Die. A look at the most common causes of death by state.; Indicators of Mental Health Problems Reported by Prisoners and Jail Inmates, 2011-12; New section: Occupational Health; Surveillance for Silicosis Deaths Among Persons Aged 15�44 Years � United States, 1999�2015; Costs and Outcomes of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders in the US;Age-Adjusted Rates for Homicides,* by Race/Ethnicity�� United States, 1999�2015; Major Depression Among Adults; Repeat Violent Victimization, 2005-14;

Public Health Sites D-G Widely Used Pesticide Is a Buzzkill for Honeybees - Findings add fuel to the debate over whether a commonly used chemical damages insect populations; Putting Some Emotion into Your Design � Plutchik�s Wheel of Emotions; Testing Finds Industrial Chemical Phthalates in Cheese; Powdered mac and cheese, like Kraft, may contain toxic chemicals; The 14 Toxic Cosmetic Ingredients to Avoid (and How to Find Healthier Alternatives); Addressing Prescription Drug Abuse in the
United States; Phthalates implicated in heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure in men; Evaluating low-dose toxicity from endocrine active chemicals; Final Report: Opioid Use, Misuse, and Overdose in Women; More than 8. 3 billion tons of plastics made: Most has now been discarded; Today's Air Quality Index;Antarctica's disappearing sea ice, from its peak in August 2016 to a record low on March 3, 2017;Stoned Plus Buzzed: Mixing Caffeine and Pot Brings New Risks; New section: Chlorpyrifos; Chlorpyrifos General Fact Sheet; This Harmful Pesticide Should Have Been Banned Years Ago. Now It Could Finally Happen; EWG's Tap Water Database; In the US, most people are drinking water that is legally �safe� but isn�t actually risk-free; Prescription Behavior Surveillance System (PBSS) ISSUE BRIEF; Opioid Prescribing - Where you live matters;Cannabis: the facts; Students Using Cannabis Fail University Courses More Often, According To Study; Public Perception of Climate Change and the New Climate Dice; Global Temperature in 2015; Mindfulness For People Who Think They Can't Meditate; Mindfulness For People Who Think They Can't Meditate; Earth to warm 2 degrees Celsius by the end of this century, studies say; The Anatomy of Procrastination;What�s in Your Water?; Heat in the southeastern United States: Characteristics, trends, and potential health impact; Emotional Intelligence Needs a Rewrite - Think you can read people�s emotions? Think again; 6 Facts About Naloxone, the Drug That Reverses Overdoses; 9 Potential Side Effects of Opioid Medications; Judicious Prescribing of Antibiotics; Marijuana Use Linked to Increased Risk of Dying from High Blood Pressure; Stroke, Heart Failure Linked to Marijuana; How to talk to yourself to control emotions; Anger and hatred can make us feel happy, says study; Fentanyl linked to thousands of urban overdose deaths; HUMAN HEALTH THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON IN THE UNITED STATES A Scientific Assessment (Summary Report); HUMAN HEALTH THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON IN THE UNITED STATES A Scientific Assessment (Full Report);
The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment Web site; A Human Health Perspective On Climate Change; Climate Change in The American Mind; How do hurricanes start? A step-by-step guide; The PHQ-9 - Validity of a Brief Depression Severity Measure; 15 Health Problems Linked to Monsanto's Roundup;How Your Legs Secretly Tell Others About What You Are Thinking; How to Be More Sensitive for an Emotionally Insensitive Person;Young adults� daily use of marijuana a concern; College Adults and Substance Use;Marijuana Use May Promote Nicotine Consumption; How to Prepare for a Hurricane; Hurricane Irma: Storm trackers and other survival tools for mobile and desktop users; Hurricane Season Public Health Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Guidance for Health Care Providers, Response and Recovery Workers, and Affected Communities � CDC, 2017; Marijuana may produce psychotic-like effects in high-risk individuals; Emergency Response for Drinking Water and Wastewater Utilities; Ground Water and Drinking Water; Helping Families Deal with the Stress of Relocation After a Disaster; Hurricane Safety Resources;Disaster Distress Helpline; Climate Change Is Complex. We�ve
Got Answers to Your Questions; Cannabis, 'spice' � better think twice;

Public Health Sites H-L Living Peacefully With Tinnitus; Tinnitus - Understanding the Facts; How Tattoos Might Affect Your Workout; Cannabis risk awaits young teens with depression; What is hepatitis?; Snakebites: What You Need to Know; Migraines Are Correlated with Higher Levels of Nitrate-, Nitrite-, and Nitric Oxide-Reducing Oral Microbes in the American Gut Project Cohort; Having A Tattoo Might Make You Sweat Less (And That's Not A Good Thing); Ringing in ears keeps brain more at attention, less at rest, study finds; How to Spot a Liar within Seconds; 5 Kinds of Toxic People That You Need to Get Rid of Now; Listen Up! Protect Your Hearing (infographic); How hidden toxins in your tattoos can migrate to your lymph nodes; The ink used to make tattoos might produce cancer;

Public Health Sites M - N Cancer and Men; What Happens When You Break a Bone; Brain training has no effect on decision-making or cognitive function, researchers report; Brain Activity During Decision-making; In Witnessing the Brain�s �Aha!� Moment, Scientists Shed Light on Biology of Human Consciousness; Women have more active brains than men; Playing action video games can actually harm your brain;Feeling bad about feeling bad can make you feel worse - Embracing your darker moods can actually make you feel better in the long run, psychologists find; 16 Sad Songs to Listen to When You Need a Good Cry; Depression;Paternal Depressive Symptoms and Child Behavioral or Emotional Problems in the United States; What Happens When You Have a Panic Attack; What Is a Psychotic Disorder?; Stress in America: The Impact of Discrimination;

Public Health Sites O-Z Making the Sexual History a Routine Part of Primary Care; Antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Global surveillance and a call for international collaborative action; Suicide Rates*,� for Teens Aged 15�19 Years, by Sex � United States, 1975�2015; Transmitting an STD: Criminal Laws & Penalties; Can people who spread STDs be charged with attempted murder?; Can people who practice safe sex be charged with transmission of an STD?; Can people who spread STDs be locked up?'
To be charged with transmitting an STD, must intercourse have occurred?
STDs and the Law; It�s The Law: Disclosing A Positive HIV Status; What�s The Difference Between HIV and AIDS?; Condom Use During Sexual Intercourse Among
Women and Men Aged 15�44 in the United States: 2011�2015 National Survey of Family Growth; Preventing Suicide; Just Diagnosed? Next Steps After Testing Positive for Gonorrhea or Chlamydia; Suicides under age 13: One every 5 days;Unmarried Men�s Contraceptive Use at Recent Sexual Intercourse: United States, 2011�2015; Ebola, Zika & More: How Many Viruses Can Get into Men's Semen?;

Research Resources on the Net Data Sharing Statements for Clinical Trials: A Requirement of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors; Ten Simple Rules for Scientific Fraud & Misconduct; CHECKLIST: Policies and Procedures for Handling Research Misconduct Allegations;
Checklist Allows Institutions to Evaluate Their Policies and Procedures;
Pharmaceutical companies� policies on access to trial data, results, and methods: audit study; Monsanto Was Its Own Ghostwriter for Some Safety Reviews;
The first World Atlas of the artificial night sky brightness; The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness; New atlas shows extent of light pollution � what does it mean for our health?;

Chronic lack of sleep reduces cognitive abilities, negatively impacts physical health; Why You Need to Get Enough Sleep; Insufficient sleep may add more than an inch to your waist, study suggests; Researchers identify neurons that control brain's body clock; Sleeping less than six hours a night is as bad as binge drinking and severely damages your brain, study finds; The Science of Jet Lag: 5 Surprising Findings;A dark night is good for your health;
13 Facts About Sleep Paralysis That Will Keep You Up At Night; Sleep Paralysis � Overview & Facts; Sleep Paralysis Stories � The Scariest Sleep Disorder Of All;Protein Links Gut Microbes, Biological Clocks, and Weight Gain; Why sleep matters � the economic costs of insufficient sleep; Fiber and Saturated Fat Are Associated with Sleep Arousals and Slow Wave Sleep; The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life: the new sleep science; 10 Things to Hate About Sleep Loss;
Why Do People Lack Sleep? Scientist Pins Blame On Modern Society And Workplace Culture;Are You Getting Enough Sleep?; Sleep Deprivation May Treat Depression. But Would It Ever Be Prescribed?;

Social Media Selfie Profiles; Why You Need Emoji - Emojis are the body language of the digital age; Emojis; What kind of Facebook user are you?; The misappropriation of identities of famous people on Twitter; 7 New Twitter Features (and 4 Others You May Have Missed); Online Harassment 2017; The four types of Facebook users; What do Trump's tweets say about his personality?; Our Minds Have Been Hijacked by Our Phones. Tristan Harris Wants to Rescue Them; 18 Hidden Snapchat Hacks & Features You'll Wish You Knew About Sooner; Just seeing Facebook�s logo makes users crave more; Major Facebook users share more offline, too; Can bad experiences on Facebook cause depression?; Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking; Why Facebook is so hard to resist; What your social media profile photo says about your personality; What you �like� on Facebook gives away your personality; The secret system controlling your Facebook News Feed; What your Facebook �likes� really say about you; Sea of selfies � social media�s monoculture threat; OkCupid and Facebook Aren�t the Only Ones Manipulating You, but That�s No Excuse;
Is the selfie trend a dangerous phenomenon?; When you're blue, so are your Instagram photos - Researchers discover an early-warning system for depression in social media images; Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives;Study says you�re one of these four types of Facebook users; The Smiley Index: Ranking Countries, Companies & Jobs by 'Smileyness'; Facebook �friends� aren�t real, judge says; 29 LinkedIn Tips for Professional Networking, Business & Marketing; How to enforce life skills that tech might be eroding; 12 Free Social Media and Brand Monitoring Tools We Love (and Why); Tweet life vs. street life: Exploring the gap between content, feelings; What is Reddit? A guide to the front page of the internet; New study reveals how information spreads on social media;

Statistical Programs New section: Unstructured Data; Unstructured data: The smart person's guide; How to Use Excel: 14 Simple Excel Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts; Three quick sorting tips for Access and Excel; Don�t Believe What You Read: Social Media Screenshots Are Easy to Fake;

Temperament People With This Personality Trait Literally See the World Differently; Why Openness To Experience Is The Key To Creativity; Seeing it both ways: Openness to experience and binocular rivalry suppression; Creative people physically see and process the world differently; People with no mind�s eye may help us boost our creativity; Sixth personality trait measures your Machiavellian potential;
Can You Predict Your Scores on an Important Personality Test?; Measuring the Big Five Personality Domains; THE HEXACO PERSONALITY INVENTORY - REVISED A MEASURE OF THE SIX MAJOR DIMENSIONS OF PERSONALITY; New section: Big Five Personality Domains; Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Your Free Will; Why the modern world is bad for your brain;

Electronic Cigarettes as an Introductory Tobacco Product Among Eighth and 11th Grade Tobacco Users � Oregon, 2015; Do Smokers' Lungs Heal After They Quit?; How big tobacco has survived death and taxes; Top 10 countries by highest number of tobacco deaths in 2010; Inside Philip Morris� campaign to subvert the global anti-smoking treaty; WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control;FDA's New Plan for Tobacco and Nicotine Regulation; FDA Announces Regulatory Plan to Shift Trajectory of Tobacco-related Disease and Death; Harms of Cigarette Smoking and Health Benefits of Quitting; E-Cigs May Still Damage Blood Vessels - Arterial stiffness increased immediately after vaping session; Heart Health and Smoking; Nicotine in e-cigs is not only addictive, it might also increase your risk of heart disease; E-cigarettes can damage your heart with just one puff; Chemicals in E-Cigs Connected To 'Popcorn Lung' Disease;

US Government Statistics Child Marriage in America; Crime Against Persons with Disabilities, 2009-2015 - Statistical Tables; A snapshot of America's Top States for Business 2017;

Useful Sites Pack Smart; CDC Yellow Book 2018 Health Information for International Travel Online; Out of This World: The 25 Most Surreal Landscapes on the Planet; Germophobes Beware: Don�t Touch These 10 Germ-Infested Tourist Attractions; The Planet�s Most Amazing Trees and Where to Find Them; How to Get TSA PreCheck: Everything You Need to Know; 100 Best Things to Do in New York; The Science of Wanderlust; Bedbug Registry.com; The Most Stunning Caves in America @Thrillist; European Traveller's Guide to Drinking Water;15 Ultimate Things to Do in Boston;

Webmastering Tools How to Create an Animated GIF in Photoshop; Seven Sites With Free Photos You Can Use However You Want;

Web Resources SECURITY REPORT 2016/17; Malware 2016;How to master Google Chrome; What File System Should I Use for My USB Drive?; Ranking the Most Popular Websites by Demographic; Internet of Things in the enterprise: The state of play;Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?; World's Biggest Data Breaches; What is Data Breach? Data Breaches visualization shows the recent ones; Public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud: What's the difference?;Your Smartphone Reduces Your Brainpower, Even If It's Just Sitting There - A silent, powered-off phone can still distract the most dependent users; What is cloud computing? Everything you need to know from public and private cloud to software as a service;Pwned websites - Breached websites that have been loaded into this service; World Wide Web Timeline; What kinds of people fall prey to identity theft, phishing, and hacks? It's not who you think; Cyberwar: The smart person's guide; Stuxnet: The smart person's guide; Identity Thieves Hijack Cellphone Accounts to Go After Virtual Currency; Microsoft cloud cybersecurity attacks up 300% in last year, report says; Ways Your Smartphone Can Wreck Your Health; Should We Fear the Rise of Intelligent Robots?; Ransomware: An executive guide to one of the biggest menaces on the web;Blue light has a dark side - Exposure to blue light at night, emitted by electronics and energy-efficient lightbulbs, harmful to your health; A history of artificial intelligence in 10 landmarks;

Women's Health Issues Final Report: Opioid Use, Misuse, and Overdose in Women; Human Trafficking and Child Welfare: A Guide for Child Welfare Agencies;Maternal Depression Making a Difference Through Community Action: A Planning Guide; Straight Women Reveal The Specific Movements That Make Them Orgasm; Women's Experiences With Genital Touching, Sexual Pleasure, and Orgasm: Results From a U.S. Probability Sample of Women Ages 18 to 94; Intercourse isn't everything for most women, says study -- try 'outercourse'; Female orgasms aren't all that mysterious A new study suggests it's pretty easy to figure out.; Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000; Sexual Violence: Consequences; Sexual Violence - Facts at a Glance; Involving Men in Efforts to End Violence Against Women; Interpersonal and Physical Dating Violence among Teens; Understanding Perpetrators of Nonphysical Sexual Coercion: Characteristics of Those Who Cross the Line; This Is How Long Sex Actually Lasts For Most Couples; New section: Non-cancerous Breast Conditions: Fibroadenomas of the Breast; What Is a Fibroadenoma?; Fibroadenoma;

Women's Health - Breast and Other Female Cancers You Might Have a Higher Risk of Breast Cancer Due to These 5 Factors; These hormones may make breast cancer act like stem cells; Three Steps To Lower Breast Cancer Risk, New AICR Report; Outdoor light at night linked with increased breast cancer risk in women; The mystery of breast cancer; Breast cancer and circadian disruption from electric lighting in the modern world;

Writing Why People From Manchester Are Mancunians, Not Manchesterians. Demonyms are vital to our conceptions of ourselves, but the rules behind them can be pretty messy; 20 of the Worst Typos, Grammatical Errors & Spelling Mistakes We've Ever Seen; How to Write Faster: 12 Unusual Hacks [Infographic]; PolitiFact's guide to fake news websites and what they peddle; Health Literacy Online - A guide to writing and designing
easy-to-use health Web sites; 7 words (and more) you shouldn�t use in medical news; How to Decide What to Blog About: 6 Data-Driven Tactics for Choosing Blog Topics; 4 Tips for Getting Your Work Emails Read and Answered; To boost your writing, pick tougher stuff to read; Employer Survey & Economic Trend Research;
Why Americans can�t write; Why can�t college graduates write?; Why so many college students are lousy at writing � and how Mr. Miyagi can help;
Why Many College Students Never Learn How to Write Sentence;From an Engineer to an Author, I Find These Writing Tips Really Helpful; The One Technique You Need to Turn Boring Writing into Compelling Words; Take 5 Minutes To Read And Improve Your Writing Skills Forever; Essential Editing and Proofreading Tools for Polish Academic Writing; 9 Academic Writing And Study Habits Used By Successful Students; 8 Tricks to Writing Quickly; How To Turn Sadness Into
Creativity; What�s the Best Way to Write a Blog Post? Marketers Weigh In; New section: Expressive Writing; New study says that writing can help you stop worrying; Are You A Frequent Worrier? New Study Shows How You Can Drastically Reduce Worry; 8 Reasons Why Writing Is A Great Life-Hack & Can Make You Healthier (Backed By Science); The puzzling way that writing heals the body; Scientific Studies Show How Writing In A Journal Can Actually Benefit Your Emotional &amp Physical Well-Being; Keeping a diary makes you happier;Fake news more likely to thrive online due to lowered fact-checking;

October - December 2017

Academic Resources Doing homework is associated with change in students� personality; The Only Way to Remember Everything You Have Read; New section: Intelligence; Smart people have better connected brains - In intelligent persons, some brain regions interact more closely, while others de-couple themselves; Evidence mounts that laptops are terrible for students at lectures - Time to reconsider the notebook and pen; The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop
Note Taking; Reading on electronic devices may interfere with science reading comprehension; Can�t Switch Your Focus? Your Brain Might Not Be Wired for It;

Chronic Disease Index Learning and staying in shape key to longer lifespan; Learning and staying in shape key to longer lifespan, study finds; Majority of Adults Report A Health Condition; Prevalence of Single and Multiple Leading Causes of Death by Race/Ethnicity Among People Aged 60 to 70 Years;

High blood pressure dangers: Hypertension's effects on your body; Could Skipping Breakfast Feed Heart Disease?; 2017 ACC/AHA/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/AGS/APhA/ASH/ASPC/NMA/PCNA Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults; A Visual Guide to the New Blood Pressure Guidelines - The ACC/AHA 2017 recommendations -- in color and by the numbers; Exercising in Smog Weakens Heart, Lung BenefitsLondon study shows surroundings can make, or break, exercise benefits; A Guide to Effective Health Care System Interventions and Community Programs Linked to Clinical Services;

A Visual Guide to Atrial Fibrillation; Unexpected Heart Attack Triggers; A visual gide to Vein and Artery Problems; A visual guide to DVT; Surprising Causes of DVT, Tips for Living with DVT; Stroke Risk Scorecard;

Chinese Culture Pandas Are No Longer Endangered. But Their Habitat Is in Trouble; Why Are Pandas Black and White?;
This Shipwreck Dates to When Genghis Khan's Descendants Ruled China; Poll: Asian-Americans See Individuals' Prejudice As Big Discrimination Problem; Chinese Culture: Customs & Traditions of China;

tobacco use in connecticut; Connecticut Health Investigative Team [C-HIT];

Gestational Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Risk; New section: Type 3c Diabetes; Incidence, Demographics, and Clinical Characteristics of Diabetes of the Exocrine Pancreas (Type 3c): A Retrospective Cohort Study; Newly-identified third type of diabetes is being wrongly diagnosed as type 2;Incidence of End-Stage Renal Disease Attributed to Diabetes Among Persons with Diagnosed Diabetes � United States and Puerto Rico, 2000�2014; Diabetes of the brain is connected to Alzheimer's, new study shows; type 2 diabetes;

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about... 50 Strange But True Facts About the U.S.; Weatherspark.com - The Typical Weather Anywhere on Earth; Gravitational Waves Detected from Neutron-Star Crashes: The Discovery Explained; Solar System Planets: Order of the 8 (or 9) Planets; Plate tectonics: the hidden key to life on Earth;

Favorite Movie Sites Blade Runner and the Power of Sci-Fi World-Building; Why Snow, Rain, and Confetti Destroy Streaming Video Quality; Machine Dreams: 22 Human-Like Androids from Sci-Fi; 35 Inspirational Movies That Will Change Your Life; Every Single James Bond Movie, Ranked @Thrillist; The 50 Best Christmas Movies of All Time;

Favorite Music Sites The Biggest Song From the Year You Were Born @Thrillist; How Playing Music Benefits Your Brain More than Any Other Activity; Hidden Messages on Classic Album Covers; How your brain singles out 1 sound among many; Why Christmas music is wrapped in nostalgia;

Fitness For Your Brain�s Sake, Keep Moving;
What happens to your body when you skip the gym - Think twice before you hit pause on your workouts; Do you burn more calories exercising in the cold? Here�s what the science says;

Nutrition Resources 21 Things That Happen to Your Body When You Stop Eating Processed Foods; 6 Ways Fast Food Chains Get You Hooked; Research Proves These Foods Are Just As Addictive as Drugs; What Your Cravings Say About You�And How To Crush Them; Could Skipping Breakfast Feed Heart Disease?; This Is Why You Can�t Ever Just Eat One Potato Chip, According to Science;Should You Ditch Diet Sodas?; Is drinking carbonated water bad for you?; Carbonated (Sparkling) Water: Good or Bad?;Foods You Can�t Stop Eating -- But Should; Basic Information about Your Drinking Water; Get the Facts: Drinking Water and Intake; Here's Which Produce Has the Most Pesticides;Know Your Limit for Added Sugars - Facts about Added Sugars Consumption; The Most Dangerous Foods in the World; Banned, Novel Stimulants Found in Supplements Four compounds found in six sports and weight-loss products; Make better beverage choices; Serious health risks associated with energy drinks; Controversial sugar industry study on cancer uncovered; Foods to Avoid If You Have Anxiety or Depression; Foods That Help Fight Depression;

Trends in Incidence of Cancers Associated with Overweight and Obesity � United States, 2005�2014; Prevalence of Obesity Among Adults and Youth: United States, 2015�2016; 2017�s Fattest States in America; Obesity Paradox? No Such Thing, New Research Claims -'Results were clear and impressive ... no survival advantage for obesity'; How to communicate about obesity without promoting stigma; Prevalence of Obesity Among Adults, by Household Income and Education � United States, 2011�2014;

Public Health Data HIV Infection, Risk, Prevention, and Testing Behaviors among Persons Who Inject Drugs National HIV Behavioral Surveillance Injection Drug Use 20 U.S. Cities, 2015; Diagnoses of HIV Infection in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2016; HIV Surveillance � Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) through 2016;Maps Based on Data from
2016 HIV Surveillance Report; HIV Surveillance � Persons Who Inject Drugs;
Epidemiology of HIV Infection through 2016;

Public Health Practice Using Effective Communication to Improve Health Outcomes; Everyday Words for Public Health Communication; From the Front of the Room: An Advocate's Guide to Help Prepare Survivors for Public Speaking;

Public Health Sites A - C Why Do We Get Addicted to Things?; Teens take risks, but that�s not a flaw of their brains;Booze and pot use in teens lessens life success - Teens who drank or smoked marijuana heavily are less likely to marry, go to college, or work full time; How Alcohol Affects Your Body; How Much Alcohol is Too Much?; Responding to children and adolescents who have been sexually abused - WHO clinical guidelines - WHO.int; Playing too many video games can cause a mental health disorder, says World Health Organization;

Public Health Sites D-G Radiation Exposure; Medical Countermeasures (Treatments) for Radiation Exposure and Contamination; Decontamination - Pets; Health Information for Specific Groups; Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about Radiation Emergencies; Radiation Emergencies: Resource Library; What are inhalants?; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - 1/19/17 Snapshot; The Most Addictive Drug: Substance Abuse Ranked By Chemical And Societal Effects; Cannabis consumption increases violent behavior in young people in psychiatric care; The United States of Climate Change; Truth About Lead;How fentanyl became America�s leading cause of overdose deaths; How the opioid epidemic became America�s worst drug crisis ever, in 15 maps and charts; The opioid painkiller and heroin epidemic, explained;The opioid epidemic, explained; Fentanyl Is Now The Leading Cause Of US Overdose Deaths;
This Drug Is Cheaper And More Powerful Than Heroin � And May Be Killing Way More People; �Truly terrifying�: Chinese suppliers flood US and Canada with deadly fentanyl;FENTANYL (Trade Names: Actiq�, FentoraTM, Duragesic�); 7 tips for avoiding chemicals that harm fertility;The household chemicals affecting your fertility; Users Say the 'Smart Drug' Modafinil Is the New Adderall � Only Better; Cocaine use during adolescence is even more harmful than during adulthood; 10 Toxic Household Items You Should Throw Away Now; #CLIMATECHANGE Information on Potential Economic Effects Could Help Guide Federal Efforts to Reduce Fiscal Exposure; US States of Toxins; A quarter of problematic pot users have anxiety disorders, many since childhood; Excretion of the Herbicide Glyphosate in Older Adults Between 1993 and 2016; Study Links Widely Used Pesticides to Antibiotic Resistance; Underlying Factors in Drug Overdose Deaths;6 ways climate change and disease helped topple the Roman Empire; How Climate Change Affects Cartography - Mapmakers talk about how they approach shifting coastlines and melting ice; How Climate Change Is Already Affecting Health, Spreading Disease; New section: Blue Light; Blue Light: It's Both Bad And Good For You; Balance problems; 20 Things to Do When You Feel Extremely Angry; 3 harmful myths about the opioid epidemic; New section: Harmful Algal Bloom; Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB)-Associated Illness; Air Pollution is an Invisible Killer; Feds Prepare For A New War On Kratom, An Herbal Drug Many Swear By; FDA warns of injury, death with herbal supplement kratom; Herbal supplement kratom linked to injuries, deaths, FDA warns; A drug that claims to boost focus has been tied to 36 deaths � but you can still buy it online and from a vending machine'; Tiny Slowdown in Earth's Rotation Could Unleash Major Earthquakes; Management of Suspected Opioid Overdose With Naloxone in Out-of-Hospital Settings: A Systematic Review; Top 10 Causes of Dizziness; EXPLAINING EXTREME EVENTS OF 2016 From A Climate Perspective; Megadisasters devastated America this year. They�re going to get worse;

Public Health Sites M - N HIV among Latinos; The HIV Crisis among Hispanic/Latino MSM; HIV/AIDS among Hispanic/Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in New York State; Mental Health Myths and Facts; Conditions That Can Change Your Personality; Does the Mind Impact Health? A Researcher�s Insights; New Study Casts Doubt on Diagnosis of Adult-Onset A.D.H.D.; Facts & Stats Report: Domestic Violence in Asian & Pacific Islander Homes, 2015; Shattered Lives: Homicides, Domestic Violence and Asian Families (2010); Statistics on Violence Against API Women; Women can be psychopaths too, in ways more subtle but just as dangerous; What Boredom Does to You - The science of the wandering mind; Seasonal affective disorder (SAD); The Facts About Depression; 5 Things You Should Know About Stress; Foods to Avoid If You Have Anxiety or Depression; Foods That Help Fight Depression; Psychiatrists, psychologists and counsellors: Who to see for your mental health issues; A ROADMAP TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH - A Guide to Using Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Services; Bad News for the Highly Intelligent Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests;

Research Resources on the Net Dealing with Unethical or Illegal Conduct in Higher Education; Health News Review - Our Review Criteria; Can You Trust Wikipedia on Science?; Disclosures in Nutrition Research -Why It Is Different; Why Garbage Science Gets Published; We overstate our negative feelings in surveys; Science Isn�t Broken
It�s just a hell of a lot harder than we give it credit for;

Resources for Health Professionals Ten of the world�s weirdest diseases and disorders; Responding to children and adolescents who have been sexually abused - WHO clinical guidelines - WHO.int; A Guide to Taking a Sexual History;

Sleep Duration and Quality Among Women Aged 40�59, by Menopausal Status; 'Western society is chronically sleep deprived': the importance of the body's clock; 6 scientific tricks for falling asleep; Sleep Scientist Warns Against Walking Through Life 'In An Underslept State'; Association of Sleep-Disordered Breathing With Cognitive Function and Risk of Cognitive Impairment A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis; Scientists Want to Help You Have Lucid Dreams; Sleepless Night Leaves Some Brain Cells As Sluggish As You Feel; Beware! This is your brain on sleep deprivation; The Surprising Reason Nighttime Injuries Are Worse Than Daytime Ones; Why Do People Talk In Their Sleep?;

Social Media Teens and Parents Agree � Mobile Devices Are Pervasive Distraction; How Frequently Should I Publish on Social Media? A HubSpot Experiment; Google Thought I Was a Man - How Facebook and Google build a picture of who you really are; Why Facebook Is the Junk Food of Socializing; The Meme as Meme - Why do things go viral, and should we care?;How To Protect Your Focus From Being "Robbed" By Notifications and Social Media; Anatomy of news consumption on Facebook; New Healthy Media Habits for Young Kids; Is Social Media Contributing to Rising Teen Suicide Rate?; Landmark Report: U.S. Teens Use an Average of Nine Hours of Media Per Day, Tweens Use Six Hours' Social media use and anxiety in emerging adults; Which Social Media Network Makes Us Feel the Worst? [New Data]; What Parents Need to Know About Technology Addiction; Why you should be skeptical of science on social media;What can Twitter reveal about people with ADHD?; Social Defaults: Observed Choices Become Choice Defaults; Generation at risk: America�s youngest facing mental health crisis; How social networking keeps people healthy Microblogging may be a valuable online tool for reducing negative emotions for people who experience social anxiety, suggests new research; Essential Facebook settings you need to change now; Update on the Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress;

New section: Four Tendencies; Gretchen Rubin's Quiz: The Four Tendencies; Ta-Da! The Launch of My Quiz on the Four Tendencies. Learn About Yourself!;

Tobacco Use; 2017 Tobacco Use State Fact Sheets; The Prohibition of Distributing Free Samples of Tobacco Products Guidance; Vaping Elicits Immune Response in Lungs - Study findings raise new doubts abut e-cigarette safety; Higher nicotine in e-cigarettes tied to higher risk of teen smoking; High-Nicotine Vaping May Increase Teen Smoking - Use of e-cigarettes with more nicotine linked to continued vaping; Tobacco Use Among Working Adults � United States, 2014�2016; One in five US adults still using tobacco products in 2015 - Of the nation�s nearly 49 million tobacco users, most are smokers;Tobacco Product Use Among Adults � United States, 2015; Corrective Statements From the Tobacco Industry:More Evidence for Why We Need Effective Tobacco Control; Use big tobacco's Nov 26 corrective statements to reduce smoking; Editorial: Use Big Tobacco�s Nov 26 Corrective Statements to Reduce Smoking; E-Cigarettes: What Vaping Does to Your Body;Smoke-Free Policies in the World�s 50 Busiest Airports � August 2017; 'Safer' Cigarettes Still Prove Harmful to Blood Vessels - Heat-not-burn product impacts endothelial function in animal model; Tobacco industry admissions should strengthen global resolve on tobacco control; Trajectories of E-Cigarette and Conventional Cigarette Use Among Youth; E-cig use increases risk of beginning tobacco cigarette use in young adults; E-cig use increases risk of beginning tobacco cigarette use in young adults; State Laws Regarding Indoor Public Use, Retail Sales, and Prices of Electronic Cigarettes � U.S. States, Guam, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands, September 30, 2017; Prevalence of tobacco product* use by race/ethnicity� � National Survey of Drug Use and Health, United States, 2010�2015;

Useful Sites Global Entry vs. TSA PreCheck: All the Differences, Explained; The Perks (and Pitfalls) of Traveling With Friends; The One Word That Could Negate Your Travel Insurance Coverage; 5 Diseases in America You Could Get While Traveling; How to Avoid Food Poisoning When Traveling Abroad;

Web Resources 6 DoS attacks that made headlines; The current state of cybercrime; Super cute home robots are coming, but think twice before you trust them; The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions; Remember GeoCities? 9 tech titans that fell from grace; WiFi is broken � here's the companies that have already fixed it; Key Reinstallation Attacks - Breaking WPA2 by forcing nonce reuse; Your Wi-Fi Network Is Vulnerable: How to Protect Against KRACK; A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering; A Beginner's Guide to SSL: What It Is & Why It Makes Your Website More Secure; 2017�s States Most Vulnerable to Identity Theft & Fraud; Home Computers and Internet Use in the United States: August 2000; How to make confusing privacy policies usable; Cybersecurity Trends 2017 Spotlight Report; 8 steps to take within 48 hours of a data breach; New section: Electromagnetic Radiation; Wi-Fi Routers; Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation; You Asked: Should I Worry About Wi-Fi Radiation?; Recent Research on WiFi Effects, from Electromagnetic Radiation Safety; I Found the World's First Meme With Help From Meme Historians @Thrillist; Is Your Phone Is Listening to You? Here�s How to Stop It; How to Disable Siri; 10 more things I don't miss about old technology; The Motherboard Guide to Not Getting Hacked;Securing the Internet of Things; Four methods hackers use to steal data from air-gapped computers; Blockchain: The smart person's guide; Cyberattacks most likely to happen in these 10 states on Cyber Monday; Cybercrime Map; We Asked 6 Privacy and Legal Experts About Apple�s New Face ID; Addicted to Your Phone? It Could Throw Off Your Brain Chemistry; A Unified Theory of Meme Death; Ransomware: A cheat sheet for professionals; New section: Health effects of cellphone radiation; California issues frightening cellphone radiation warnings; Cellphone radiation risks hidden by government health officials; Why men should not put phones in their pockets; Mobile phones are 'cooking' men's sperm; A new study claims there is a link between cellphone use and cancer; Cellphones linked to cancer through shocking new study; How to Reduce Exposure to Radiofrequency Energy from Cell Phones; California activists applaud state�s new cell phone safety advisory; CDPH Issues Guidelines on How to Reduce Exposure to Radio Frequency Energy from Cell Phones; California advises against keeping your phone in your pocket; California Health Officials Release Guidelines To Avoid Cellphone Radiation; Wi-Fi increases a pregnant woman's risk of miscarriage;
Radiation typical of cell phones and Wi-Fi linked to high rate of miscarriages; Wi-fi and cellphones increase pregnant women's risk of a miscarriage by nearly 50%, study reveals; Frequently Asked Questions about Cell Phones and Your Health; CT Department of Public Health: Cell Phones: Questions and Answers about Safety; New section: Cryptocurrencies; 10 Things You Should Know About Bitcoin; How Bitcoin Activity Stacks Up Against Other Payment Networks; Cryptocurrency - How it Works; Obsessive selfie-taking is now a mental disorder called �selfitis�; Artificial intelligence used to predict whether your next selfie could be your last;Data Scientists Chart the Tragic Rise of Selfie Deaths; California Health Department Warns Against Keeping Phones Close to You;

Women's Health - Life Cycle 'Don't Eat the Placenta,' Doctors Warn New Parents; There is no safe amount of alcohol during pregnancy, new study shows;

Women's Health Issues Stalking;What You Should Know About Osteoporosis Meds; The persistent crime that connects mass shooters and terror suspects: Domestic violence; Responding to children and adolescents who have been sexually abused - WHO clinical guidelines - WHO.int;

Writing Time Traveler - Find out what year words were created; The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online; Is fact-checking �fake news� a waste of time?; Junk Jargon infographic; New section: Copyrighting; Copywriting 101: 6 Traits of Excellent Copy Readers Will Remember; Why Do People Hate the Word 'Moist?' The Science Behind Word Aversion; The �phantom reference:� How a made-up article got almost 400 citations; Everyday Words for Public Health Communication; Just for journalists: Tips and case studies for writing about health care;Internet trolls rely on social defaults, the online version of herd mentality; Why technology alone won't save us from fake news; Fake news problem: Facebook is a media company run by engineers; Health News Review - Our Review Criteria; Time Traveler: When was a word first used in print? You may be surprised! Enter a date below to see the words first recorded on that year. To learn more about First Known Use dates;

January - March 2018

Academic Resources Behavior in high school predicts income and occupational success later in life;Manageable levels of anxiety can help your memory; University education makes students more agreeable, conscientiousness;

Biostatistics/Statistics Sites Jason Newsom's Statistics Links; What is big data? Everything you need to know; Big data privacy is a bigger issue than you think; Big Data and Machine Learning in Health Care; AI�s biggest risk factor: Data gone wrong - Bad data is big issue for artificial intelligence, and as businesses increasingly embrace AI, the stakes will only get higher. Here�s how not to get burned;

Chronic Disease Index Mapping Life Expectancy; Does where you live affect how long you live?;Geographic Variations in Arthritis Prevalence, Health-Related Characteristics, and Management � United States, 2015;

Vitamin D3 could help heal or prevent cardiovascular damage; Loud noises are bad for your heart � and your cells; Wrong Direction: Troubling Trends in the Rate of U.S. Cardiovascular Disease Deaths; Trends in Acute Myocardial Infarction in Young Patients and Differences by Sex and Race, 2001 to 2010; Vitamin D reduces risk of early mortality by 30 per cent in people with cardiovascular disease;

Consumer Health Surviving Violence in America: What to Do; Four Health and Safety Tips for Mass Gatherings; Tips to Prevent Poisonings;

Cool Sites A- L How to Use a Limited Color Palette for Better Photos; How to Move to a Dedicated Camera After Using a Smartphone Camera; How to photograph lightning: Tips for getting the best shots; How to clean your camera sensor safely; Photographing a Stormy Sea in All Its Mythic Glory;

Diabetes and pregnancy: national trends over a 15 year period; What Medicines Can Make Your Blood Sugar Spike?; Gestational Diabetes Risk Tied to Seasons in Greek Study - Temperature exposure may affect glucose levels; Ultimate Guide to the A1C Test: Everything You Need To Know; There's a Totally New Type of Diabetes And It's Being Misdiagnosed as Type 2 - Type 3c diabetes might be surprisingly widespread; eAG/A1C Conversion Calculator; Diabetes is actually five separate diseases, research suggests; New Way to Classify Adult-Onset Diabetes, Explained Clinical, genetic characteristics define groups with distinct progression, risks; Researchers Identify Five Different Types of Diabetes, Not Just Type 1 and Type 2; The 5 'New' Types of Diabetes, Explained;
Diabetes can be divided into five different groups; here's everything to know;
Diabetes Report Card;

Favorite Movie SitesDrawing Snow White and Animating Buzz Lightyear: Technological Toolkit Characteristics and Creativity in Cross-Disciplinary Teams; Academy Awards: Critical Acclaim vs. Commercial Appeal; The 33 Best Modern Thrillers; From mall cops to sex buddies: 14 times movies about the same thing came out at the same time;

Favorite Music Sites Sound Health - Music Gets You Moving and More; Best selling music by state; The Biggest Song From the Year You Were Born; Music Gets You Moving and More; 7 Best Places to Download Free Music (Legally);

Fitness Physical exercise is more important for health than weight, study reports; Stress ruins memory, but you can outrun this effect; New section: Physical Activity Guidelines;2018 Physical Activity
Guidelines Advisory Committee Scientific Report; How exercise in old age prevents the immune system from declining; Using pedometers in a short term walking program boosts long term activity; How to Build Your Own Workout Routines � Advice from a Two-time Olympian;

Graphing How to Design an Information Visualization; Visual Mapping � The Elements of Information Visualization;
Preattentive Visual Properties and How to Use Them in Information Visualization;

Health Care Information Which medicines don�t go well with flying?; Caregiving Tips; From Insight to Advocacy:
Addressing Family Caregiving as a National Public Health Issue;

Health Education Resources Why willpower is overrated - Psychologists increasingly think effortful restraint is not the key to the good life. So what is?; Science Tells You How Long It Takes to Break a Habit; We Do What We Know Is Bad for Us, Why?;

What Everyone Should Know;
Viruses or Bacteria What�s got you sick?; National Outbreak Reporting System (NORS); Foodborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance System (FDOSS); Pathogens On A Plane: How To Stay Healthy In Flight; Behaviors, movements, and transmission of droplet-mediated respiratory diseases during transcontinental airline flights;
Trends and Patterns of Differences in Infectious Disease Mortality Among US Counties, 1980-2014;

M - Z The High Cost of Surviving Rabies; Rabies deadlier than ever; Why a simple, lifesaving rabies shot can cost $10,000 in America - Untreated rabies is always fatal � but key drugs leave families with thousands in medical debt; Noncongenital Zika Virus Disease Cases � 50 U.S. States and the District of Columbia, 2016; Emergence of Monkeypox � West and Central Africa, 1970�2017; Tuberculosis � United States, 2017;

Kids Health Warning Signs for Bullying; Resources to help children in the wake of a school shooting;Coping with Traumatic Events: Resources for Children, Parents, Educators, and Other Professionals; Child Trauma Toolkit for Educators | October 2008
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network www.NCTSN.org; Parenting a Child Who Has Experienced Trauma; Helping Young Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: Policies and Strategies for Early Care and Education; Bullying based on stigma has especially damaging effects - Study examines strategies used to help victims targeted based on race, sexual orientation or other characteristic;

Maternal Child Health Accessing your own genomic data is a civil right but requires strategies to manage safety; Risk Score May Reveal if Kids are Victims of Ill-Treatment - Children with higher scores had higher chances of death, hospitalization; New section: Cloning; Cloning Fact Sheet; The prevalence of adverse childhood experiences, nationally, by state, and by race or ethnicity; Educational success curbs effects of child abuse, neglect; New section: Biobank/Genomic Databases; The Struggle to Build a Massive �Biobank� of Patient Data; Million Veteran Program (MVP); What is the Million Veteran Program?;Swedish Haplogroup Database; Problems with AncestryDNA�s Genetic Ethnicity Prediction?;

Nutrition Resources Dietary Supplements for Exercise and Athletic Performance Fact Sheet for Consumers; The Secret Ways Scientists Are Altering Your Vegetables; The History and Future of GMOs in Food and Agriculture 2007; Good fats, bad fats; How Much Vitamin D Should You Take For Optimal Health?; 12 Fish You Should Never Eat�And What To Eat Instead; Strong link found between ultra-processed foods and cancer;Second National Report on Biochemical Indicators - of Diet and Nutrition in the U.S. Population;
A comprehensive biochemical assessment of nutrition status; How to Stop Eating Sugar; Artificial Sweeteners Impact Metabolic Health Even on Cellular Level
Not as healthy as consumers may think, researcher says; Ranking the Most (and Least) Nutritious Meals for Your Dollar;

Why Is Losing Weight So Tough?; Prevalence of Obesity Among Youths by Household Income and Education Level of Head of Household � United States 2011�2014; 'Obesity paradox' debunked - Obese people really don't live longer than normal weight people with heart disease, they're just diagnosed at a younger age; Trends in Obesity and Severe Obesity Prevalence in US Youth and Adults by Sex and Age, 2007-2008 to 2015-2016'

Public Health Data Sexual Intercourse Among High School Students � 29 States and United States Overall, 2005�2015; Trends in Emergency Department Visits for Suspected Opioid Overdoses � United States, July 2016�September 2017; Annual Total Binge Drinks Consumed by U.S. Adults, 2015;Overdose Death Rates; Drug Overdose Death Data;

Public Health Data Air Travel Safety; Mental Health Statistics; Mass Shootings in the United States: 2009�2016 March, 2017;Surveillance for Violent Deaths � National Violent Death Reporting System, 18 States, 2014; Prevalence of Depression Among Adults Aged 20 and Over: United States, 2013�2016; Distracted driving: Everyone hates it, but most of us do it, study finds; driving to distraction - Car tech and the great distraction dilemma; Trends in Fatalities From Distracted Driving in the United States, 1999 to 2008; The state(s) of texting and driving in the US; After 2016 Election, Campus Hate Crimes Seemed to Jump. Here�s What the Data Tell Us.; Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance � United States, 2015; Face America�s Greatest Danger (Gun Violence Statistics and Facts);

Public Health Practice Speak Easy: Tips for Public Speaking like a Pro; Infographic: 7 Things to Consider When Communicating About Health;

Public Health Sites A - C Sexual Intercourse Among High School Students � 29 States and United States Overall, 2005�2015; Changing the Way We Talk to Teens About Tragic Events - Strategies for talking about mass shootings, terrorism or unexpected attacks.Oct 04, 2017; New section: Sexting; That Teen Sexting ; : What Else You Need To Know Before Freaking Out; What Parents Need to Know About Sexting; Commonsense Media�s Sexting Handbook; Guidelines for Adolescent Depression in Primary Care (GLAD-PC): Part I. Practice Preparation, Identification, Assessment, and Initial Management; Guidelines for Adolescent Depression in Primary Care (GLAD-PC): Part II. Treatment and Ongoing Management; All teens should be screened for depression, new guidelines urge; People are dying because we misunderstand how those with addiction think; PrEP For HIV Prevention; A Comprehensive Technical Package for the Prevention of Youth Violence and Associated Risk Behaviors; Nope, hormones aren�t to blame for teen social behavior; This is why our phones are making us miserable: happiness isn't the same thing as pleasure, and our brain knows it;

Public Health Sites D-G The world's DEADLIEST volcanoes - Volcanos' volatility have helped shape the world (great slideshow); Yellowstone volcano in pictures; INTERACTIVE MAP: Radioactive elements found in drinking water across the U.S.; The Top 7 Climate Findings of 2017; Health Tips During volcano activity;Emotional Wellness Toolkit; Emotional Wellness Toolkit � More Resources; Radon Toolkit for Public Health Professionals; Consumer�s Guide
to Radon Reduction How to Fix Your Home; What Is Global Warming?; STDs in Men Who Have Sex with Men; Emotional Intelligence at Work | 5 Reasons Why it Matters; The World's Water; Why Your Biology Runs on Feelings - Think feelings are important? You�re more right than you know; Is a major California earthquake overdue?; Compounds in herbal supplement kratom are opioids, FDA says;
The FDA has warned of the �deadly risks� of the herb kratom, citing 36 deaths;
FDA declares popular alt-medicine kratom an opioid; Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., on the agency�s scientific evidence on the presence of opioid compounds in kratom, underscoring its potential for abuse - Additional adverse events associated with kratom use identified; Kratom: What is the‬ herbal drug sweeping America and why has the FDA said it contains opioids?; Consumers have �no choice� in avoiding toxin in plastics, study finds
Researchers say that 86 percent of teens regularly ingest BPA; Estimated Excess Morbidity and Mortality Associated with Air Pollution above American Thoracic Society�recommended Standards, 2013�2015; PFASs, chemicals commonly found in environment, may interfere with body weight regulation; Exposure to Magnetic Field Non-Ionizing Radiation and the Risk of Miscarriage: A Prospective Cohort Study; Electric & Magnetic Fields; Cell Phones and Cancer Risk; Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D. on FDA advisory about deadly risks associated with kratom; FDA Warns Against Using Kratom: What People With Diabetes Need to Know About the Opioid;Fracking chemicals linked to pre-cancerous lesions in mice; Estrogen and Androgen Receptor Activities of Hydraulic Fracturing Chemicals and Surface and Ground Water in a Drilling-Dense Region; The many ways your house is killing you; Study finds cleaning chemicals are as harmful as smoking 20 cigarettes per day for women - Researchers say exposure to these chemicals reduces lung function over time; Alcohol might lead to postsexual regret more than ecstasy or marijuana; RR-09: CLARITY-BPA Core Study; RR-09: Data Tables and Supplemental Appendices; New section: Spray Tanning; Are 'Spray-On' Tans Safe? Experts Raise Questions as Industry Puts Out Warnings; DHA Health Risk: Potential Lung Complications; Dihydroxyacetone;
Dihydroxyacetone, the active browning ingredient in sunless tanning lotions, induces DNA damage, cell-cycle block and apoptosis in cultured HaCaT keratinocytes; The New Pros and Cons of Spray Tanning; HIV and African American
Gay and Bisexual Men; Air pollution linked to brain alterations and cognitive impairment in children; Mexico City earthquake was rare �bending� quake; People with chemical sensitivities are like �human canaries�; The down-low on microplastics; Plastic particles found in bottled water; SYNTHETIC POLYMER CONTAMINATION IN BOTTLED WATER; World's Leading Brands of Bottled Water Loaded With Microplastics, Study Says; Chemicals in lavender and tea tree oil appear to be hormone disruptors; Prenatal exposure to plasticizer may affect male fertility in future generations; Exposure to low levels of BPA during pregnancy can lead to altered brain development; The health risks of second-hand marijuana smoke shouldn�t be ignored; New section: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning; What is Carbon Monoxide?;Carbon Monoxide (CO) Poisoning Prevention; Drugs@FDA: FDA Approved Drug Products; Judicious Prescribing of Opioid Analgesics; New section: Heavy Metal Poisoning; Heavy Metals in Selected Skin Lighting Creams and
Medicated Soaps;

Public Health Sites M - N COGNITIVE
ASSESSMENT TOOLKIT; The creative brain is wired differently; A new study shows that hits to the head, not concussions, cause CTE; A Visual Guide to Sciatica;A Visual Guide to Low Back Pain;Types of Depression; Technostress is killing productivity. Culture is the cure; People with depression have stronger emotional responses to negative memories - A study investigates the brain mechanisms underlying autobiographical memory disturbance in depression; Mental disorders may share molecular origins; Common Genetic Factors Found in 5 Mental Disorders; Self-Assessment;

Public Health Sites O-Z 10 Ways STDs Impact
Women Differently from Men; Unusual Eye Conditions; STDs in Men Who Have Sex with Men; Prevalence of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 and Type 2 in Persons Aged 14�49: United States, 2015�2016; Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) Toolkit;
These health problems can be predicted with a look into your eyes; Suicides in Teen Girls Hit 40-Year High; Making the Sexual History a Routine Part of Primary Care; How To Lower Your STD Odds - Unless you're a cloistered monk, you're at risk for a sexually transmitted disease. So learn the facts and protect yourself; Youth Performing Self-Harm More Likely to Commit Suicide
Higher suicide rate among adolescents versus young adults after self-harm;

Research Resources on the Net Community Based Participatory Research Toolkit; Best Practices for Qualitative User Research;
Strengths and Weaknesses of Quantitative and Qualitative Research; The Inside Story Of How An Ivy League Food Scientist Turned Shoddy Data Into Viral Studies;
Crisis or self-correction: Rethinking media narratives about the well-being of science; Methods 101;

Senior Health The Challenging Landscape of Cancer and Aging: Charting a Way Forward; Gender, education and class impacts on retirement and quality of life in older age; How Much Should the Average American Save for Retirement? The number might surprise you; Money Essentials: Will you have enough to retire?; 1 in 4 workers have less than $1,000 saved for retirement; How much you should have saved for retirement right now;How exercise in old age prevents the immune system from declining; New section: Go4Life; Wolters Kluwer Reviews State Tax Treatments of Retirement Benefits; Seniors & Retirees; More older Americans are working, and working more, than they used to;
Measuring Your Fitness Progress; Monthly Progress Test; Weekly Exercise and Physical Activity Plan; Goal-Setting Worksheet; Overcoming Barriers to Exercise: No More Excuses;

Here's What You Say When You Talk in Your Sleep; General anaesthetics do more than put you to sleep; Sleep deprivation and irregular sleep patterns are linked to anxiety and depression; Identifying and Managing Sleep Disorders in Primary Care NYC.gov 1/2018;Short Sleep Duration Among Middle School and High School Students � United States, 2015; External temperature also influences our circadian rhythms, study reports; Slowing Down Cancer by Activating the Circadian Clock; The brain�s internal clock continually takes its temperature; Our circadian clock sets the rhythm for our cells� powerhouses; The Ultimate Night Routine Guide: How to Sleep Better and Wake Up Smarter; The Concerning Link Between Inadequate Sleep and Adolescent Substance Use;

Social Media The Sneaky Science Behind Your Kid�s Tech Obsessions; Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, And It Won't Tell Me How; Perfectionism among young people significantly increased since 1980s, study finds - Excessive desire to succeed, compete with others may have negative impact on youth psychological health;Social Media Has Hijacked Our Brains and Threatens Global Democracy; How to Create a YouTube Channel; �Never get high on your own supply� � why social media bosses don�t use social media;
20 YouTube Tricks, Hacks, and Features You'll Want to Know About This Year; Security Tip (ST06-003) Staying Safe on Social Networking Sites; 7 Ways to Make Facebook, Instagram & Your Social Media Life Less Stressful;Stress in America� 2017: Coping with Change; Technology and Social Media; Break up with your smartphone. Practical advice on ending your toxic relationship with your phone;What is "brain hacking"? Tech insiders on why you should care; Addiction for Fun and Profit - Facebook and other Silicon Valley companies strive to keep users hooked. Does that make them evil?; The iPhone Effect - The Quality of In-Person Social Interactions in the Presence of Mobile Devices; The Risk Of Teen Depression And Suicide Is Linked To Smartphone Use, Study Says; Teens post online content to appear interesting, popular and attractive; The good and bad health news about your exercise posts on social media; The Beginner's Guide to Social Media; Done in 60 Seconds; 5 Ways Technology is Making Us Anxious; Social Media Use in 2018; How to spot fake news in your social media feed -
Are you sharing fake news without knowing it?; 20 Hidden Instagram Hacks and Features Everyone Should Know About; Ever Wonder How Much Facebook Knows About You? Here�s How to See; How to delete your Facebook account; 70% of employers are snooping candidates� social media profiles; What you miss out on when your social media profiles are invisible to employers; The new social media imperative: Distance yourself - As Facebook just learned, a social network�s reputation can sour in an instant. Here�s how to save your own; Facebook faces a reputational meltdown; This is why our phones are making us miserable: happiness isn't the same thing as pleasure, and our brain knows it; These are the sneaky ways apps like Instagram, Facebook, Tinder lure you in and get you 'addicted';

Statistical Functions What is the GDPR? And What Does it Mean for the Marketing Industry?; GDPR Compliance - The GDPR will come into force in May 2018. Are you ready?; General Data Protection Regulation GDPR; General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements, deadlines and facts; For Weighting Online Opt-In Samples, What Matters Most? The right variables make a big difference for accuracy. Complex statistical methods, not so much; EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): A cheat sheet; What is GDPR? Everything you need to know about the new general data protection regulations; How the GDPR will make consumers king of their data; 3 tips to reducing big data compliance risks; How to get your company on track to comply with GDPR; The top 5 reasons you should care about privacy; GDPR: Look out for 'right to be forgotten storms' ahead - Thousands of EU citizens may ask data controllers to erase their records by the end of May. Will organizations be ready for this coming storm?; Data protection - Rules for the protection of personal data inside and outside the EU; Preparing for GDPR compliance: Where you need to be now and how to get there; Identity data in the world of GDPR;Time is running out on GDPR compliance: Find out if you're affected; What is a graph database? A better way to store connected data - Learn why graph databases excel at exploring highly connected data, and how to leverage them in your organization; What is GDPR? Everything you need to know about the new general data protection regulations; Are you letting GDPR�s privacy rules trump security?; What is personally identifiable information (PII)? How to protect it under GDPR-The EU's General Data Protection Regulation requires companies to protect the privacy of their EU customers. That means keeping personally identifiable information (PII) safe. Here's what you need to know.; RSA Data Privacy & Security Report; The Proposal to Lower P Value Thresholds to .005; p Value Changes;

The Dark Side of That Personality Quiz You Just Took - Personality tests have captivated people for decades, but their newfound popularity online makes them dangerous;

At least 3 out of 5 people who try a cigarette become daily smokers; At least 3 out of 5 people who try a cigarette become daily smokers;
Trying just one cigarette leads to a daily habit in majority of people, study suggests; Most people who try one cigarette become daily smokers, study says;
The first cigarette usually ends in a daily habit: study;Current Cigarette Smoking Among Adults � United States, 2016; Electronic Cigarettes (E-cigarettes); New section: IQOS; An FDA panel is ruling on a new Philip Morris product that could upend the cigarette market IQOS, the new �heat not burn� tobacco device, explained.; Overview of the FDA Briefing Document for January 24-25, 2018 discussion of Philip Morris Products S.A. MRTPAs for its IQOS system and three tobacco HeatSticks; 4 big takeaways from the most comprehensive report on e-cigarettes yet; PH Consequences of E-cigarettes; E-cigarettes and health � here's what the evidence actually says; Microsoft introduces new privacy tools ahead of Data Privacy Day; Windows 10 snooping: Microsoft has halved data it collects from PCs says watchdog; Windows 10 snooping: Microsoft gets more time to tackle 'excessive' data collection; Windows 10: CNIL publicly serves formal notice to Microsoft Corporation to comply with the French Data Protection Act within three months 20 July 2016; Windows 10 violates your privacy by default, here's how you can protect yourself; Configure Windows telemetry in your organization; Windows 10 snooping: Microsoft reveals what data it collects about you and why; Windows 10: Now you can see every bit of data Microsoft harvests from your PC; Stay in control of your privacy - Sign in to Microsoft to view and clear the data that Microsoft saves to the cloud; State-Specific Prevalence of Tobacco Product Use Among Adults � United States, 2014�2015; Smoking Just One Cigarette a Day Raises MI, Stroke Risk - Any level of exposure to cigarette smoke is risky; Low cigarette consumption and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: meta-analysis of 141 cohort studies in 55 study reports;New Report One of the Most Comprehensive Studies on Health Effects of E-Cigarettes; Finds That Using E-Cigarettes May Lead Youth to Start Smoking, Adults to Stop Smoking; Women's Health and Smoking; E-cigarette flavors are toxic to white blood cells, warn scientists - Cinnamon, vanilla and buttery e-cigarette flavors are among the most toxic -- and mixing flavors is more damaging than vaping just one; Why This Silly Cat Video Could Help Curb Youth Smoking; Cigarette Brand Preference and Pro-Tobacco Advertising Among Middle and High School Students � United States, 2012�2016; Long-Term E-Cigarette Use Could Increase Pneumonia Risk
In vitro, in vivo studies show increased pneumococcal airway adhesion; We Asked Teens To Explain Juuling To Us & Wow; Low cigarette consumption and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: meta-analysis of 141 cohort studies in 55 study reports; Reasons for Electronic Cigarette Use Among Middle and High School Students � National Youth Tobacco Survey, United States, 2016; Deeming Tobacco Products To Be Subject to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as Amended by the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act; Restrictions on the Sale and Distribution of Tobacco Products and Required Warning Statements for Tobacco Products; Final; Potentially Toxic Levels Of Lead And Other Metals Found In E-Cigarette Vapor; Vaping may pull lead and other metals into your lungs; Cigarette Smoking During Pregnancy: United States, 2016; Study finds e-cigarette vapors may contain lead and other toxic metals - Researchers say the devices� heating coils are to blame; E-cigarettes may be more harmful than beneficial, according to evidence-based research; Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., on pivotal public health step to dramatically reduce smoking rates by lowering nicotine in combustible cigarettes to minimally or non-addictive levels; Exposure to Electronic Cigarette Advertising Among Middle and High School Students � United States, 2014�2016; Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Level of Combusted Cigarettes - A Proposed Rule by the Food and Drug Administration on 03/16/2018; Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Level of Combusted Cigarettes; E-cigarettes may lead to accumulation of fat in the liver; Trends in Hookah Use Among New York City Middle and High School Students, 2008�2014; Tobacco Use Among Middle and High School Students in Pennsylvania; The Tobacco Atlas, The Sixth Edition; The secrets of the world�s biggest tobacco company - The Philip Morris Files - A REUTERS INVESTIGATION;

US Government Statistics Prisoners in 2016;
How Many People Are Alive From the Year You Were Born; Indicators of
School Crime and Safety: 2012; First Look: KEY DATA HIGHLIGHTS ON EQUITY AND OPPORTUNITY GAPS IN OUR NATION�S PUBLIC SCHOOLS; Alternative School
Discipline Strategies; BREAKING SCHOOLS' RULES: A Statewide Study of How School Discipline Relates to Students� Success and Juvenile Justice Involvement; The Baby Boom Cohort in the United States: 2012 to 2060; Defining generations: Where Millennials end and post-Millennials begin;Americans Name the 10 Most Significant Historic Events of Their Lifetimes; 9 machine learning myths;

Useful Sites The Bed Bug Registry; 15 Secrets the Airlines Don't Want You to Know; 25 Weird, Wild Things About Flying You Probably Didn't Know; Germs at the Airport; Science Says This Is How Long Your Vacation Should Be; Calendarpedia;

Web Resources New section: Blockchain; What is a blockchain? Here�s everything you need to know - Without blockchain, bitcoin couldn't exist. Here's how it works; How to mine Bitcoin: A crash course on cryptocurrency mining; Scientific Experts on Cellphone Radiation Demand Stronger FCC Safety Regulations; Highest and Lowest Radiation Cell Phones; Hundreds of privacy-invading apps are using ultrasonic sounds to track you; America's Smartphone Addiction; 2017 global mobile consumer survey: US edition The dawn of the next era in mobile;Ways Your Smartphone Can Wreck Your Health; Quick glossary: Blockchain; Cheat sheet: Blockchain; Blockchain API; What is blockchain? Understanding the technology and the revolution (free PDF);
CryptoKitties: The blockchain can be gamified too; Ripple is blockchain for the financial enterprise, but it's centralized;OPEN LETTER FROM JANA PARTNERS AND CALSTRS TO APPLE INC.; Your iPhone Has Tracked Your Every Move � Here�s How to See the Map; What is the Internet of Things? Everything you need to know about the IoT right now - The Internet of Things explained: what the IoT is, and where it's going next; Spectre and Meltdown: Cheat sheet; Data Privacy Day; Security Tip (ST06-008) Safeguarding Your Data; Security Tip (ST04-013) Protecting Your Privacy; Security Tip (ST04-014) Avoiding Social Engineering and Phishing Attacks; Security Tip (ST05-019) Preventing and Responding to Identity Theft;802.11: Wi-Fi standards and speeds explained;The 11 least secure connected devices; Phones vulnerable to location tracking even when GPS services off; PinMe: Tracking a Smartphone User around the World;Smartphones make people distracted and unproductive A smartphone can sap attention even when it's not in use or turned off and in your pocket. That doesn't bode well for productivity.;
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they�re on the brink of a mental-health crisis; Technostress is killing productivity. Culture is the cure. Pay attention to the technology malady of our time. It's making your employees miserable � and unproductive; New CareerBuilder Survey Reveals How Much Smartphones Are Sapping Productivity at Work; How Distractions At Work Take Up More Time Than You Think; Smartphone Detox: How To Power Down In A Wired World; Decreases in Psychological Well-Being Among American Adolescents After 2012 and Links to Screen Time During the Rise of Smartphone Technology; A concerning new study links miscarriages to cellphone radiation. How worried should we be? Non-ionizing radiation may have more of a biological effect than we thought; It�s Time to Banish Your Screens From the Bedroom; Online security 101: Tips for protecting your privacy from hackers and spies;Smartphones: Bad for some teens but not all, expert says; What is malware? Everything you need to know about viruses, trojans and malicious software; Top 5: Things to know about machine learning; Chaos Engineering: A cheat sheet; An executive�s guide to AI; 3 (Potential) Health Risks of Mobile Phone Usage; What is a cyber attack? Recent examples show disturbing trends; FAQ This! What Is Blockchain?; This is what your smartphone is doing to your brain � and it isn't good;

Wellness Resources Part I (1 - 5) Singles in America: Match Releases Largest Study on U.S. Single Population (2017);
Singles in America; Singles in America: Match Releases Largest Study on U.S. Single Population for Eighth Year;

Women's Health - Breast and Other Female Cancers Findings raise new concerns about birth control safety; Contemporary Hormonal Contraception and the Risk of Breast Cancer; Doctors Warn of Heart Risk From Some Breast Cancer Therapies - Health experts are stepping up warnings that certain breast cancer treatments may harm the heart; What Are the Stages of Breast Cancer?; Heart Health for Women; 40 Ways to Prevent Breast Cancer After 40 - WHEN YOU REACH MIDDLE AGE, IT'S TIME TO TAKE ACTION; Fracking chemicals linked to breast cancer in new study - New research points to disturbing implications for those who live near a drilling site; Possible Chlamydia Link with Ovarian Cancer - Associations seen in two separate cohorts of women;

Writing Writing process infographic; Commonly Misused Phrases That Will Make You Sound Unprofessional; Understanding the complexities of retractions; Hangry, mansplaining, and lactivism added to Oxford Dictionary; The precarious prevalence of predatory journals; Nature journals tighten rules on non-financial conflicts; Authors will be asked to declare any interests that might cloud objectivity; The Grammar of Online Reviews - Is There a Connection Between Spelling Errors and Negative Online Reviews?;
Estimating the Helpfulness and Economic Impact of Product Reviews: Mining Text and Reviewer Characteristics; Is There a Connection Between Bad Grammar and Negative Online Reviews?;Write it Down, Make it Happen | 3 Journaling Habits to Help Your Career; 6 Ways Keeping a Journal Can Help Your Career; 5 Steps to Turning Your Blogging Hobby Into a Job; WordPress website maintenance checklist; Hemingway App; Fake News: Lies spread faster on social media than truth does
People are quicker to repeat something that's wrong than something that's true; The science of fake news gets a boost;The spread of true and false news online;
The science of fake news; How to spot fake news in your social media feed -
Are you sharing fake news without knowing it?; What Is a Whitepaper? [FAQs]; 10 Universal Writing Rules from The Onion�s Founding Editor;

April - June 2018

Updated Pages

Academic Resources It�s official: College men think they�re smarter than they really are; Who's smarter in the classroom � men or women? New ASU study shows it�s all about perception; Who perceives they are smarter? Exploring the influence of student characteristics on student academic self-concept in physiology; Education, not income, the best predictor of a long life; Flipping the classroom approach in public health -- does student performance improve?; Curiosity is key to early childhood success in math and reading; The secret to honing kids' language and literacy - Researchers found that a child's ability to self-regulate is a critical element in childhood language and literacy development, and that the earlier they can hone these skills, the faster language and literacy skills develop leading to better skills in the long run; 'Will this be on the test?' Even if it isn't, students might remember it; Give up on �finding your passion� and try this instead; One year of school comes with an IQ bump, meta-analysis shows;

Annotated Great Books Bibliography Ken Jennings' Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks; Dan Brown's Origin; David Lagererantz's The Girl Who Takes An Eye for An Eye;

Cancer Disparities; Obesity and Cancer; Metastatic Cancer Gorges on Fructose in the Liver; New section: HTLV-1; Doctors raise alarm about ancient HTLV-1 virus: 'Prevalence is off the charts' in Australia; Epidemiology, Treatment, and Prevention of Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type 1-Associated Diseases; HTLV-1 Community; human T-cell leukemia virus type 1; The discovery of the first human retrovirus: HTLV-1 and HTLV-2; The HTLV-1 neurological complex; TECHNICAL REPORT: Geographical distribution of areas with a high prevalence of HTLV-1 infection; What is HTLV-1? Ancient "cousin" of HIV spreading "off the charts";
How A Virus Called HTLV-1 From 1500-Year-Old Mummies Infected 40 Percent of Adults In Rural Australia; The Real Mystery Behind Spreading Australian Virus is Why it's Been Ignored. HTLV-1 is nothing new.; The dangerous ancient virus that is �off the charts� in Australia; Cousin of HIV virus �infecting 40% of the adult population in rural Australia; Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer,Part I: National Cancer Statistics; Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer; Interactive Cancer Risk Matrix - Discover how diet, nutrition and physical activity affect cancer risk; Summary of Strong Evidence on Diet, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer; Summary of Conclusions; Throat Cancer�s Link to Oral Sex: What You Should Know; How Genetic Changes Lead to Cancer; United States Cancer Statistics;

Chronic Disease Index The State of US Health, 1990-2016 - Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Among US States; Physical Activity Prevents Chronic Disease;

Cool Sites A- L The Beginner's Guide to Product Photography [Tutorial + Examples]; The Best Editing Apps for Photos;Taking photos impairs memory of the object or event � but it�s unclear why; Freeze or Blur? The Two Ways to Capture Movement in Photography;

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about... What is Daylight Savings Time, how it came to be, and why we should probably get rid of it; What is an exoplanet?; 23 Countries That No Longer Exist and the History Behind Them; Embalming & mummification � everything you wanted to know; ESA - Archive Image Browser;European Space Agency's Planetary Science Archive (PSA);

Favorite Movie Sites Tired of Netflix? Here�s where to find free, legal movies online; The 33 Best Movie Songs of All Time; 50 Box-Office Bombs That Are Actually Great @Thrillist; The 45 Best Travel Films of All Time; Every Pixar Movie Ranked; Pixar's Short Films, Ranked @Thrillist;

Favorite Music Sites Music intensifies effects of anti-hypertensive medication - Anti-hypertensive drugs improving heart rate more in patients who listen to music after taking medication 4/2018; How to write a hit song; Musical trends and predictability of success in contemporary songs in and out of the top charts; Learning music or a foreign language can help your brain be more efficient; People who deeply grasp pain or happiness of others, process music differently in brain - Higher empathy people appear to process music like a pleasurable proxy for a human encounter -- in the brain regions for reward, social awareness and regulation of social emotions;

What is antibiotic resistance: everything you need to know; EBOLA RESPONSE - Key technical documents; How a virus can cause joint-crippling arthritis; New section: Keystone Virus: Keystone Virus Makes First Known Jump From Mosquitoes To Humans; Virus found in Florida resident may be widespread throughout the Southeast; Keystone Virus Isolated from a Florida Teenager with Rash and Subjective Fever: Another Endemic Arbovirus in the Southeastern United States?; Keystone Virus Found In Human For First Time; Add Keystone Virus To The List Of Things You Can Catch From Mosquitoes; Keystone virus makes first jump from mosquitoes to humans with confirmed case in Florida teen; Laws That Criminalize Spread Of Infectious Diseases Can Increase Their Stigma;

M - Z Thanks, anti-vaxxers: Measles is on the rise in Europe; Zika Infectious in Semen Mostly in First Few Weeks
RNA detectable for months, but does not appear to be cause for concern; Zika Virus Shedding in Semen of Symptomatic Infected Men; Illnesses on the rise from mosquito, tick, and flea bites; Malaria Surveillance � United States, 2015;Diseases Spread by Mosquitoes; Bedbugs Slideshow: An Informative Look at Bedbugs; What's Under Your Skin? Bugs That Burrow;Treating and Preventing a Head Lice Infestation; Identifying Bugs and Their Bites; TICK-BORNE DISEASES IN THE NEW YORK CITY AREA A Reference Manual for Physicians; The Clinical Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention of Lyme Disease, Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America; Zoonotic &amp Vectorborne Diseases;Invasive Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections Among Persons Who Inject Drugs � Six Sites, 2005�2016;Ticks; Invasive Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections Among Persons Who Inject Drugs � Six Sites, 2005�2016;

Kids Health Student Reports for Bullying: Results From the 2015 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey;

Nutrition Resources Adults Over the Age of 45 that Consume Large Amounts of Sugary Drinks May Have Higher Risk of Dying from Heart Disease or Other Cause; What's in a Fat Cell?; Scientist debunks 5 food allergy myths;2 things in food mess up fat cells in just 24 hours; Zero-calorie sweeteners might be just as bad for you as sugar; Infant and Toddler Nutrition; Benefits of Water: Science Proved 5 Great Reasons to Stay Hydrated; New section: Food labeling; Menu Labeling; Food Labeling: Nutrition Labeling of Standard Menu Items in Restaurants and Similar Retail Food Establishments Final Regulatory Impact Analysis FDA�2011�F�0172; Menu Labeling Requirements;The new global plan to eliminate the most harmful fat in food, explained
The WHO wants to ban a food ingredient that causes 500,000 premature deaths worldwide each year; The FDA just ordered food companies to stop using trans fat. Here's what it means for you; Hospital Admissions for Myocardial Infarction and Stroke Before and After the Trans-Fatty Acid Restrictions in New York; Why it took the FDA nearly 40 years to ban trans fats; Occurrence of trans Fatty Acids in Human Tissue; The Scientific Case for Banning Trans Fats; Is eating fat really bad for you? Here's what the science says; Labeling of Foods Derived From Genetically Engineered Plants; G.M.O. Foods Will Soon Require Labels. What Will the Labels Say?; These Foods Aren�t Genetically Modified but They Are �Edited�;
Open Season Is Seen in Gene Editing of Animals; National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard - A Proposed Rule by the Agricultural Marketing Service on 05/04/2018; There�s No Such Thing as a Single 'Best' Diet; Sugar or Fat: What�s Worse for Your Waistline?; Trans fat is double trouble for your heart health; Are some calories better than others? Yes, suggests new research; 12 Ways Too Much Sugar Harms Your Body; What Are Antioxidants?;Phytonutrients: Plant-Based Perks; The Effects of Nonnutritive Sweeteners on Cardiometabolic Health;

Sleepy kids may struggle with obesity later; Prevalence of Obesity Among Adults and Youth: United States, 2015�2016; The Science of Obesity Management: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement; Health Problems Related to Obesity; Pathways and mechanisms linking dietary components to cardiometabolic disease: thinking beyond calories; The truth behind the most popular diet trends of the moment;Fracking exposure leads to more fat cells; Obesity Prevalence Among Adults Living in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties � United States, 2016;

Public Health Data Overdose Deaths Involving Opioids, Cocaine, and Psychostimulants � United States, 2015�2016; Percentage of Deaths Associated With Inadequate Physical Activity in the United States; Monthly Variation in Substance Use Initiation among Adolescents;Monthly Variation in Substance Use Initiation Among Full-time College Students; Diagnoses of HIV Infection among Adolescents and Young Adults in the
United States and 6 Dependent Areas 2011�2016; Diagnoses of HIV Infection
among Adults and Adolescents in Metropolitan Statistical Areas� United States and Puerto Rico, 2016 - 5/2018; 2017 Monitoring the Future Survey (MTF) NATIONAL SURVEY RESULTS ON DRUG USE, 1975�2017 Volume I Secondary School Students 6/2018;

Public Health Practice So Informative Content Helps. But What Kind of Information?; National Cancer Survivors Day�
Social Media Toolkit;

Public Health Sites A - C Pollen; What Does It Mean When We Call Addiction a Brain Disorder?; Comorbidity: Addiction and Other Mental Disorders; Common Physical and Mental Health Comorbidities with Substance Use Disorders; Drugs, Brains, and Behavior: The Science of Addiction; This is what love does to your brain �It�s really an addiction.�;
Alcohol Awareness Month Organizer's Guide; Drinking more than five pints a week could shorten your life, study finds; Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies; Substance Use Screening and Intervention Implementation Guide: No Amount of Substance Use Is Safe for Adolescents; . Planning and Implementing Screening and Brief Intervention for Risky Alcohol Use: A Step-by-Step Guide for Primary Care Practices; A neurobiological link between PTSD and addiction - Remembering a traumatic experience may increase sensitivity to the rewarding effects of drugs; A Visual Guide to Understanding Osteoarthritis; The chemistry of indulgence; Physical Activity for Arthritis; Key Public Health Messages; Teen Depression; HIV Among Asians; False-Positive HIV Test Results; Pharmacotherapies Used to Treat Alcohol, Nicotine, and Opioid Use Disorders; New details suggest how cardio could treat addiction; What Causes Addicts to Relapse?; Human drug addiction behaviors tied to specific impairments in 6 brain networks; Video game addiction; WHO sees gaming addiction as mental condition, opens door for smartphone, social media disorders; Gaming behaviour; Public health implications of excessive use of the Internet and other communication and gaming platforms; Binge drinking during youth may impact future offspring; Risks of cancer and mortality by average lifetime alcohol intake;

Public Health Sites D-G Framework for Assessing Health Impacts of Multiple Chemicals and Other Stressors; Eating out increases exposure to toxic phthalates; Drugs World; New section: Opioid Overdose Prevention; SAMHSA - Opioid Overdose Prevention TOOLKIT; Surgeon General�s Advisory on Naloxone and Opioid Overdose; Current Marijuana Use by Industry and Occupation � Colorado, 2014�2015; Need for Multiple Naloxone Doses on the Rise; Multiple Naloxone Administrations Among Emergency Medical Service Providers is Increasing; STEPS OF NALOXONE ADMINISTRATION; 5 Important Considerations for EMS Naloxone Administration; FDA Advisory Committee on the Most Appropriate Dose or Doses of Naloxone to Reverse the Effects of Life-threatening Opioid Overdose in the Community Settings; Trends in Multiple Naloxone Administrations among EMS Personnel; Treatment Information;Common Comorbidities with Substance Use Disorders; Treatment Approaches for Drug Addiction; Cannabis Use Tied to Schizophrenia Conversion - Similar links found with amphetamine and opioid abuse; Association between alcohol, cannabis, and other illicit substance abuse and risk of developing schizophrenia: a nationwide population based register study;The True, Deadly Scope of America�s Fentanyl Problem; Learning from the Flint Water Crisis: Protecting the Public�s Health During a Financial Emergency; Public Health Handbook for Communities Under Emergency Management - A Case Study of the Flint Water Crisis: Legal Mapping Tools and Lessons Learned; Developing a Volcano Emergency Plan; Volcanoes; Volcano Preparedness; Indicators of Climate Change in California; Volcanoes are awe-inspiring. Here are 7 things to know about them; Kilauea, Hawaii Eruption 2018; Kilauea�s eruption reminds us that volcanoes are beautiful, dangerous, and closer than we may realize; K2/Spice: An Unpredictable Danger; Mindfulness Exercises; Clorox won�t cut it. Volcanologists explain what it takes to clean up after Kilauea;What You Should Know About Opioids; The Economics of Fracking: Is Fracking Worth the Health and Environmental Risks?; A Visual Guide to Balance Disorders; Synthetic cannabinoids: What are they? What are their effects?; About synthetic cannabinoids; Synthetic Cannabinoids: An Overview for Healthcare Providers; Transgenerational Effects of Di-(2-Ethylhexyl) Phthalate (DEHP) on Stress Hormones and Behavior; Gestational Exposure to Bisphenol A Produces Transgenerational Changes in Behaviors and Gene Expression; Common Comorbidities with Substance Use Disorders; The judge in a federal climate change lawsuit wants a science tutorial Here are answers to eight questions the judge wants to address during his climate crash course; Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for people who consume alcohol and use opioids; Hawaii volcano: How many people do volcanoes kill?; Warning signs of opiate addiction; Q&A: How do climate models work?; Injection Wells of Hydraulic Fracking Causing More Earthquakes and Other Damage; Yes, You Can Become Addicted to Marijuana. And the Problem is Growing; Is marijuana addictive?; Social rejection is painful and can lead to violence; Your Guide to Your Gallbladder; Antarctica has lost three trillion tonnes of ice in 25 years. Time is running out for the frozen continent;Household Products Database; Perfluoroalkyls; Health Effects of Exposure to Substances and Carcinogens; Has volcanic activity been increasing?;

Public Health Sites M - N 2018 Cigna U.S. Loneliness Index; Americans Are A Lonely Lot, And Young People Bear The Heaviest Burden; Cigna's U.S. Loneliness Index; Guys, We Have A Problem: How American Masculinity Creates Lonely Men; Double Depression; Personal Inventory for Depression and SAD; Self-Assessment Version (PIDS-SA); Automated Online Confidential Self-Assessments; Mood Disorders: How to Recognize and Treat Them;Guide to Personality Disorders; A Visual Guide to Sciatica; Male Breast Cancer Treatment (PDQ�)�Patient Version; Risks to mental health: an overview of vulnerabilities and risk factors; Smoking and diabetes linked to brain calcifications; Tips for Traveling When You Have Back Pain; How to Ease Sciatic Nerve Pain; Reasons Your Neck Hurts; Why Does Your Back Hurt?; Back Pain Myths; Prescription Drugs That Cause Depression; Why being left-handed matters for mental health treatment; Left, right and center: mapping emotion in the brain;

Public Health Sites O-Z Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea; Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance 2016; STDs during Pregnancy - CDC Fact Sheet (Detailed); Reported STDs in the United States, 2016 High Burden of STDs Threaten Millions of Americans; Update on investigation of UK case of Neisseria gonorrhoeae with high-level resistance to azithromycin and resistance to ceftriaxone acquired abroad; Transmitting HIV Is a Crime in Most States. Is HCV Next?; INFECTIOUS DISEASES SOCIETY OF AMERICA (IDSA) AND HIV MEDICINE ASSOCIATION (HIVMA) POSITION ON THE CRIMINALIZATION OF HIV,
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS AND OTHER COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; Basics of Vision and Eye Health; Public health surveillance of multidrug-resistant clones of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Europe: a genomic survey; 6 Reasons to Get HPV Vaccine for Your Child; 2012 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention:
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES FOR ACTION A report of the U.S. Surgeon General
and of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention; Transforming communities: Key elements for the implementation of comprehensive community-based suicide prevention; Suicide rising across the US
More than a mental health concern; Suicide Rates in the United States Continue to Increase; A Visual Guide to Cataracts;

Tick Tock: Your Body Clocks - Understanding Your Daily Rhythms; 10 Mind-Blowing Facts About Your Dreams; How to Get a Good Night's Sleep;Chronotypes in the US � Influence of age and sex; Automated Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (AutoMEQ); Identifying and Managing Sleep Disorders in Primary Care; Sleep and Health; Metabolism and the Circadian Clock Converge; Metabolic Consequences in Humans of Prolonged Sleep Restriction Combined with Circadian Disruption; Alignment of mother and offspring body clock could prevent diseases such as heart disease and obesity; All About Your Body Clock; Body clock linked to mood disorders; Association of disrupted circadian rhythmicity with mood disorders, subjective wellbeing, and cognitive function: a cross-sectional study of 91 105 participants from the UK Biobank; Insomnia; Back, Side or Stomach: Which Sleep Position Is Best for You? How to make sure your spine's in alignment when you sleep; Just two days of night-shift alter the activity of more than 100 blood proteins; Sleep in this weekend -- you might live longer; Sleep and obesity; Sleep Disorders; The Risks of Sleeping �Too Much�. Survey of a National Representative Sample of 24671 Adults (INPES Health Barometer); Social jetlag: misalignment of biological and social time; Recommended Amount of Sleep for a Healthy Adult: A Joint Consensus Statement of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research Society; How Your Sleep Position Affects Your Health; What Is Night Eating Syndrome?; Signs Your Lack of Sleep Is Slowly Killing You (And How to Turn Around); Bad sleep may predict pot and alcohol use; Sleep Help for Seniors;

Social Media Americans� complicated feelings about social media in an era of privacy concerns; Bots in the Twittersphere; News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2017; 5 facts about Americans and Facebook; Facebook and Cambridge Analytica: Privacy Concerns Run High; How to Get Your FOMO Under Control;Social Networks Are Great, But They�re a Terrible Place to Get News; Teens, Social Media & Technology 2018;U.S. Teens Have Mixed Feelings About Social Media; Social Media May Harm a Woman's Body Image;Facebook data privacy scandal: A cheat sheet; The Top 58 Most Popular Hashtags to Get Likes and Retweets on Twitter;Negative vs. positive social media experiences and depressive symptoms; Social media post types that consumes want to see versus those that marketers post. (e.g. Discounts, posts that teach, entertain, showcase employees.); Kids want parents to obey these 7 technology rules; Analysis of over 800 million tweets reveals how our thought patterns shift throughout the day;

Statistical Functions Tips for Analyzing Large Data Sets From the JAMA Surgery Statistical Editors; Top 5: Things you should know about GDPR; Understand the GDPR guidelines for obtaining lawful consent to process data; What Is the GDPR? The EU�s Online Privacy Law: Explained; Shoppers: Transparency About Data Use Would Encourage More Sharing; The C-Word: Scientific Euphemisms Do Not Improve Causal Inference From Observational Data; GDPR compliance deadline is approaching: 10 things to do right away;In the Era of Precision Medicine and Big Data, Who Is Normal?; How to Wrestle Your Data From Data Brokers, Silicon Valley � and Cambridge Analytica. It can be done but it�s not easy; What is GDPR and How Does It Impact Your Business?; GDPR compliant? Here's a handy five-step preparation checklist; Lawful basis for processing; Guide to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); GDPR proves that tech giants can be tamed; What is the GDPR Privacy Law and Why Should You Care?; Here's Why You're Getting a Flood of Privacy Policy Update Emails This Week; General Data Protection Regulation GDPR; Article 29 Working Party Publishes Guidance on Consent Under the GDPR;Turning the Tables � The New European General Data Protection Regulation; 4 tips for developing better data algorithms; Americans� Views About Data Collection and Security; Methods of Comparison, Compared;

Statistical Programs ALT Codes for Symbols and Characters; How to use Excel's Data Model to turn related data into meaningful information; How to Learn Excel Online: 17 Free and Paid Resources for Excel Training; Excel Online: Tips, Tricks, and Hidden Features You Should Know; Statistics Calculators - Gigacalculator.com;

�I Can�t Stop�: Schools Struggle With Vaping Explosion; Teens Are 'Juuling' At School. Here's What That Means; Electronic Cigarettes (CDC); Identifying and Treating Patients Who Use Tobacco ACTION STEPS for Clinicians; The FDA is trying to crack down on Juuling, the latest e-cigarette craze
In high school bathrooms and on Instagram, Juul e-cigs have gained a cult following; Association of Cigarette, Cigar, and Pipe Use With Mortality Risk in the US Population; Feds Target E-Cig Liquids with Kid-Friendly Packaging
Brands resemble juice boxes, cookies, candy; FDA, FTC take action against companies misleading kids with e-liquids that resemble children�s juice boxes, candies and cookies; E-Liquids Misleadingly Labeled or Advertised as Food Products; New section: E-Liquids; Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., on new enforcement actions and a Youth Tobacco Prevention Plan to stop youth use of, and access to, JUUL and other e-cigarettes; Do You Vape? See These Tips on How to Keep E-Liquids Away from Children;HVAC systems spread thirdhand smoke, Old smoke causes new problems; Secondhand Smoke (SHS) Facts;
Thirdhand Smoke: State of the Science and a Call for Policy Expansion;
Secondhand (and Third-Hand) Smoke May Be Making Your Pet Sick; Adolescent Exposure to Toxic Volatile Organic Chemicals From E-Cigarettes; E-Cigarettes: Inhaling More Than You Bargained For; U.S. Fire Administration - Electronic Cigarette Fires and Explosions in the United States 2009 - 2016 July 2017 from FEMA.gov 7/2017; 5 Things To Know About Complementary Health Approaches for Quitting Smoking; Teen develops 'wet lung' after vaping for just 3 weeks; Quitting smoking is very good for you. Cutting back, not so much; Even a single cigarette a day can be devastating for your health; Higher formaldehyde risk in e-cigarettes than previously thought; Mission Possible: Protect Yourself From Secondhand Smoke;Smoking E-Cigarettes Daily Doubles Risk of Heart Attacks
When Combined with Daily Cigarette Use, Heart Attack Risk Rises Five-Fold, Study Finds;The Promise of Vaping and the Rise of Juul; Coalitions: State and Community Interventions User Guide Best Practices for Comprehension Tobacco Control Programs User Guide; Cardiovascular harms from tobacco use and secondhand smoke global gaps in awareness and implications for action; Ban e-cigarette flavourings and misleading adverts to protect young people, say international lung health experts;Electronic cigarette use in youths: a position statement of the Forum of International Respiratory Societies; Tobacco Product Use Among Middle and High School Students � United States, 2011�2017; Tobacco Product Use Among Middle and High School Students � United States, 2011�2017;
He Started Vaping As A Teen And Now Says Habit Is 'Impossible To Let Go'; FDA Targets JUUL E-Cigs in Crackdown on Underage Sales - Requires company to examine appeal of brand among teens; Youth Tobacco Use: Results from the National Youth Tobacco Survey; Electronic cigarette use in youths: a position statement of the Forum of International Respiratory Societies; E-Cigarette Flavorings May Harm Blood Vessels - Cell studies show short-term endothelial disruption with exposure;E-Cigarettes: Inhaling More Than You Bargained For; E-Cigarettes: What You Need to Know; How Does Addiction Taste? Flavored Tobacco Products and e-Cigs Are No Safer than Unflavored;Smoke-Free and Tobacco-Free Policies in Colleges and Universities ― United States and Territories, 2017;

US Government Statistics Indicators of
School Crime and Safety: 2017; Capital Punishment, 2016;Healthy Aging Data; The Whys and Hows of Generations Research; The Whys and Hows of Generations Research; Federal Prosecution of Human-Trafficking Cases, 2015;

Useful Sites Flight Radar 24 - Live Air Traffic; CDC Travelers� Health, 2018; Henley &amp Partners Passport Index; The 10 Essentials - Ten things to have on every hike; How to Pack for an Extended Trip in Just a Carry-On Bag;

Web Resources People are really worried about IoT data privacy and security�and they should be. Despite rising spending on IoT security, consumers and businesses are right to worry about how data will be used and protected; Machine learning: A cheat sheet; Digital addiction increases loneliness, anxiety and depression - Study suggests ways to outsmart smart phones; Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Version 1.1 4/2018 National Institute of Standards and Technology; Online security 101: Tips for protecting your privacy from hackers and spies; History of the Internet; 17 internet-connected things that really shouldn't be online; How to Break Your Phone Habit; Evaluating the Association between Artificial Light-at-Night Exposure and Breast and Prostate Cancer Risk in Spain (MCC-Spain Study); Blue Light from Smartphones May Increase Risk of Some Cancers; 2017 Internet Crime Report; Privacy: From principles to practice; How Anonymous Are You?; What is machine learning? Everything you need to know; Net neutrality: A cheat sheet; How to Clear Your Cache, Cookies, and History on Any Device or Browser; Technology that changed us: The 1970s, from Pong to Apollo; How to Archive Your Data (Virtually) Forever; 3 Problems With USB-C You Need To Know About; Technology that changed us: The 1980s, from MS-DOS to the first GPS satellite; Technology that changed us: The 1990s, from WorldWideWeb to Google; Technology that changed us: The 2000s, from iPhone to Twitter; Technology that changed us: The 2010s, from Amazon Echo to Pok�mon Go; iPhone Etiquette 2018: Are You Keeping up with Times?; How to Break Free From Your Phone; USB Type-C Explained: What is USB-C and Why You�ll Want it;

Writing Many Americans Believe Fake News Is Sowing Confusion; The digital transformation of news media and the rise of online disinformation; Tackling online disinformation: Commission proposes an EU-wide Code of Practice; Standard Eurobarometer 83; What is peer review?; State of Writing; Better online tools give you more ways to check �fake news�; Botometer; Fakey; Hoaxy; Federal plain language guidelines; GDPR vs. ePrivacy: The 3 differences you need to know; The Lost Lingo of New York City�s Soda Jerks; Biggest Fake News Stories of 2017; Top 10 sites to debunk Internet hoaxes; Websites that Post Fake and Satirical Stories; Evaluating Websites: Identifying Fake News Sources Guidance for selecting the best sites for your research needs; Tineye; What is 'fake news,' and how can you spot it? Try our quiz; 4 reasons �fake news� tricks us and what we can do; Writing Journal for a Better and More Productive Self (The How-To Guide);Journaling for Mental Health; The Health Benefits of Journaling; State of the News Media
Data and trends about key sectors in the U.S. news media industry; Fakespot; How to Spot Fake Reviews; Hoax-slayer.com; Snopes.com; ReviewMeta; Distinguishing Between Factual and Opinion Statements in the News;

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Academic Resources How to improve student educational outcomes: New insights from data analytics; Checking phones in lectures can cost students half a grade in exams; Forget Learning How to Multitask: Boost Productivity 10X More with Focus; How brains of doers differ from those of procrastinators; 13 Powerful Listening Skills to Improve Your Life at Work and at Home; You act most like 'you' in a time crunch, study finds
Under time pressure, selfish people act even more selfishly; Genes are key to academic success, study suggests; One in three college freshmen worldwide reports mental health disorder - Students from 19 colleges in eight countries report symptoms consistent with psychological disorder, study says; 3 Types of Procrastinators: Which One Are You?;

How Your Emotions Can Hurt Your Heart - Exercise helps ease depression and protect your heart; Effects of Repeated Binge Drinking on Blood Pressure Levels and Other Cardiovascular Health Metrics in Young Adults: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2011‐2014; New section: Metabolic Syndrome; What You Should Know About Metabolic Syndrome; Trends and Patterns of Geographic Variation in Cardiovascular Mortality Among US Counties, 1980ï¿½2014; Preventing 1 Million Heart Attacks and Strokes; Environmental toxic metal contaminants and risk of cardiovascular disease: systematic review and meta-analysis;

National Stroke Awareness Month 2018: Stroke Can Happen to Anyone at Any Time;You Really Can Die of a Broken Heart - A Cardiologist Explains; Cardiac Arrest: What You Should Know; Cut Your Odds of a Stroke;

Diabetes and Women; Adverse effect of long work hours on incident diabetes in 7065 Ontario workers followed for 12 years; Air pollution seems to promote diabetes even at officially safeï pollution levels; High Blood Sugar and Diabetes; Diabetes and Inflammation; Diabetic Neuropathy Overview What Is Diabetic Nerve Pain?; Diabetes in America, 3rd Edition; All About Your A1C; The 2016 global and national burden of diabetes mellitus attributable to PM2.5 air pollution; More Women at Risk for T2DM with New Criteria for GD
-52% of women with IADPSG-defined gestational diabetes developed type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes;

Epidemiology M - Z Evaluating Behavioral Health Surveillance Systems; Birth Defects Surveillance - A Manual for Programme Managers; Public Health Surveillance: Preparing for the Future; Public Health Surveillance: Preparing for the Future; A New Strategy for Public Health Surveillance at CDC: Improving National Surveillance Activities and Outcomes; Public Health Surveillance and Data; The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS): Overview of Design and Methodology;

Evaluation Resources &amp Report Cards A Framework for Program Evaluation; 2018 State Report Cards: Making Strides: State Report Cards on Support for Walking, Bicycling, and Active Kids and Communities;

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about... 15 ancient civilizations youï¿½ve never heard of; The Timeline of Human Evolution; This Is What Lunar Eclipses Can Teach Us About The Universe; A record number of Americans watched the 2017 solar eclipse -- and sought science afterward; Automated Data Plotter;

Favorite Music Sites Training in musical improvisation may teach your brain to think differently; Music lifts well-being for people in palliative care; 55 of the most iconic music videos of all time; How Productivity Music Enhances Focus (With Music Recommendations);

Fitness Adding Physical Activity to Your Life; 10 Reasons to Get Moving Today!; Regular Exercise Seems to Boost Mental Health; Physical activity and telomere length in U.S. men and women: An NHANES investigation; Want your skin to look 20 to 30 years younger? Try this; Lack of exercise puts one in four people at risk, WHO says; Updated Physical Activity Resource Guide from California Department of Public Health; More active people for a healthier world - The global action plan on physical activity 2018 - 2030; GLOBAL ACTION PLAN ON PHYSICAL ACTIVITY 2018-2030; Benefits of Exercise; Sample Workouts: Getting Fit for Life;

Free Software 3 security programs that should be on every computer or laptop; 4 ways to keep your anonymity online;

Kids Health An aggressor is not necessarily a bully -- and the distinction matters; Red Card KC - raising awareness and stopping bullying;

Maternal Child Health ; WHO/CDC/ICBDSR. Birth defects surveillance: a manual for programme managers. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2014; Study raises fears of collateral damage in gene editing; Heritable genome editing: Action needed to secure responsible way forward; Correction of a pathogenic gene mutation in human embryos; What is CRISPR and what does it mean for genetics?; Editing human embryos with CRISPR is moving ahead ï¿½ nowï¿½s the time to work out the ethics; Developmental Milestones; The Foundations of Lifelong Health Are Built in Early Childhood; Socioeconomic Disparities Affect Prefrontal Function in Children; You wonï¿½t believe these three unexpected discoveries ï¿½ and neither did the scientists who made them;

Attempts to Lose Weight Among Adults in the United States, 2013ï¿½2016; Lack of this stuff in fat may cause obesity and diabetes; Calorie Restriction and Fasting Diets: What Do We Know?; Adult Obesity Prevalence Maps;

Public Health Data Rising Numbers of Deaths Involving Fentanyl and Fentanyl Analogs, Including Carfentanil, and Increased Usage and Mixing with Non-opioids; Notes from the Field: Overdose Deaths with Carfentanil and Other Fentanyl Analogs Detected ï¿½ 10 States, July 2016ï¿½June 2017; 2017 Monitoring the Future Survey (MTF) Volume 2 - NATIONAL SURVEY RESULTS ON DRUG USE 1975-2017 Volume II College Students & Adults Ages 19ï¿½55 7/2018; Naloxone Administration Frequency During Emergency Medical Service Events ï¿½ United States, 2012ï¿½2016; Identification of Substance-involved Emergency Department Visits Using Data From the National Hospital Care Survey; Co-occurrence of Physical Health Conditions and Mental Health and Substance Use Conditions Among Adult Inpatient Stays, 2010 Versus 2014; Prevalence of Five Health-Related Behaviors for Chronic Disease Prevention Among Sexual and Gender Minority Adults ï¿½ 25 U.S. States and Guam, 2016; 2018 Annual Surveillance Report of Drug-Related Risks and Outcomes ï¿½ United States; Premature death among people with severe mental disorders; Sexual Risk Behavior Differences Among Sexual Minority High School Students ï¿½ United States, 2015 and 2017; Changing dynamics of the drug overdose epidemic in the United States from 1979 through 2016;

Public Health Data Co-occurrence of Physical Health Conditions and Mental Health and Substance Use Conditions Among Adult Inpatient Stays, 2010 Versus 2014;NIOSH Worker Health Charts; 2018 Kids Count Data Book - State Trends in Child Well-Being; More than mass shootings: Gun violence narratives in California news; US Zika Pregnancy and Infant Registry; School Shooting Simulations: At What Point Does Preparation Become More Harmful than Helpful?; The School Shootings That Weren't; Data sources make it difficult to know how many school shootings happen each year; New section: Car-related Fatalities; Pediatric Vehicular Heatstroke Fact Sheet; Heatstroke Deaths of Children in Vehicles; 2018 U.S. CHILD HOT CAR FATALITIES; Firearm deaths around the world 1990ï¿½2016; The State of Mental Health in America 2018; Ascertainment of the Estimated Excess Mortality from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico; Infant Walkerï¿½Related Injuries in the United States; Our Kids, Our Future, Solutions to Child Poverty in the U.S.; After Sandy Hook, we said never again. And then we let 1.850 mass shootings happen;

Public Health Practice The CDC Clear Communication Index; Visual Communication Resources; Everyday Words for Public Health Communication; Health Impact in 5 Years; Social determinants of health and well-being among young people - Key findings from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study: international report from the 2009/2010 survey;

Public Health Sites D-G New section: Assessment Tools: The Tobacco, Alcohol, Prescription medications, and other Substance (TAPS) Tool; Instrument: TAPS Tool; Chart of Evidence-Based Screening Tools and Assessments for Adults and Adolescents; What is kratom?; Your Healthy Home; Treating Opioid Use Disorder With Medications; Protecting Yourself from Heat Stress; Protect your workers from Heat Stress; Inhalant; Protecting Workers from Heat Illness; Adjusting to Work in the Heat: Why Acclimatization Matters; FEMA's Extreme Heat Safety Graphics; Banned from Soap, Is Triclosan in Your Toothpaste?; Cannabis makes the brain ï¿½noisyï¿½ when itï¿½s at rest; Traveler's diarrhea; Emotionally Unskilled, Unaware, and Uninterested in Learning More: Reactions to Feedback About Deficits in Emotional Intelligence; Statement from FDA warning about significant health risks of contaminated illegal synthetic cannabinoid products that are being encountered by FDA; New section: Tianeptine; Characteristics of Tianeptine Exposures Reported to the National Poison Data System ï¿½ United States, 2000ï¿½2017;Protect Yourself from Wildfire Smoke; Planet at risk of heading towards ï¿½Hothouse Earthï¿½ state; What is marijuana?; Our Other Prescription Drug Problem; Dangers of rising benzo prescriptions raise alarms of next drug crisis Doctors are prescribing benzodiazepines, like Xanax and Ativan, at skyrocketing rates. But most don't know about their debilitating, even deadly, effects; The Poisoned Papers; ï¿½Poison Papersï¿½ Reveal Chemical Industry Secrets; Fentanyl: Chinaï¿½s Deadly Export to the United States; Weed-killing chemical linked to cancer found in some children's breakfast foods; New drug:
Fubinaca; Investigation Into K2 Overdoses in New Haven Reveals Drug Contaminated With Fubinaca; New Haven K2 Contained Powerful Fubinaca Chemical: PD; The drug has been described as putting people in a "zombie-like" state; ï¿½Zombieï¿½ Outbreak Caused by the Synthetic Cannabinoid AMB-FUBINACA in New York; AMB-FUBINACA; Testing for synthetic drugs; Acute Poisonings from Synthetic Cannabinoids ï¿½ 50 U.S. Toxicology Investigators Consortium Registry Sites, 2010ï¿½2015; USGS Rolls Out Groundbreaking Earthquake Study: The HayWired Earthquake Scenario; The HayWired earthquake scenarioï¿½We can outsmart disaster Fact Sheet 2018-3016 (Abstract); The HayWired Earthquake Scenarioï¿½We Can Outsmart Disaster; The HayWired Earthquake Scenario Scientific Investigations Report 2017-5013;What You Need to Know About Marijuana Use and Driving; 11 Things to Get When You Run to the Store for Emergency Hurricane Supplies; World Weather Attribution (WWA) initiative has been conducting real-time attribution analysis of extreme weather events as they happen around the world; Nonstick Chemicals May Disrupt Metabolic Function in Women-Higher PFAS concentrations tied to weight regain, slower metabolism; PFAS Exposure Tied to Weight Gain; Kratom Tea is the Focus of a Florida Lawsuitï¿½and FDA Scrutiny. Here's Why; Opioid Alternative Kratom Is Actually an Opioid Itself, FDA Warns; No, Kratom Isn't a Safe Natural 'Remedy' for Pain and Opioid Addiction, FDA Says; Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D. on FDA advisory about deadly risks associated with kratom;Here's What'll Happen When Plate Tectonics Grinds to a Halt; Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2/Spice) Unpredictable Danger; Comorbidity: Substance Use and Other Mental Disorders; Preparedness and Safety Messaging for Hurricanes, Flooding, and Similar Disasters; PFAS Exposure Tied to Kidney Disease; Chemicals in Consumer Products May Promote Weight Gain. But There's an Easy Fix; Researchers warn environmental exposure 'threat' to kidneys;Increase in fentanyl -- responsible ; for 44 percent of New York City overdose deaths -- has led to apprehension and caution; Association of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances With Adiposity; Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and the Workplace: Current Position and Need for an Occupational Health Surveillance Protocol; Facing Addiction in America - Surgeon General Spotlight on Opioids - Summary and Full Report; Household cleaners may make children overweight Canadian study shows changes to gut biota come with regular use of disinfectants; BPA exposure in US-approved levels may alter insulin response in non-diabetic adults;

Public Health Sites H-L Tinnitus: Whatï¿½s That Noise?; Hearing Loss: Triaged Referral; Mortality due to cirrhosis and liver cancer in the United States, 1999-2016: observational study; Immunizing Adult Patients: Standards for Practice; Drought and Public Health in the U.S. Fact Sheet; Drought and Your Health; Managing Asthma; Is Your Immune System Unhealthy? Why Things Can Go Wrong;

Public Health Sites M - N Men and Depression; Depression: Recognizing the Physical Signs; How Sex/Gender Influence Health & Disease (A-Z); How SEX and GENDER Influence Health and Disease; Income Inequality in the U.S. Is Rising Most Rapidly Among Asians; Key findings on the rise in income inequality within Americaï¿½s racial and ethnic groups; Forty percent of people have a fictional first memory; Psychotic Disorders;Depression Basics; Treatment for Bipolar Disorder in Adults: A Systematic Review; How What You Eat Affects Your Mental Health; Not All In the Mind - When food allergy meets mental health; Anxiety: 5 Signs That Itï¿½s a Problem for You; Anxiety and Complementary Health Approaches; Trends in Human Papillomavirusï¿½Associated Cancers ï¿½ United States, 1999ï¿½2015; Itï¿½s Time to Treat Physical and
Mental Health With Equal Intent; The 2015 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress NOVEMBER 2015;

Public Health Sites O-Z The lowdown on how to prevent sexually transmitted diseases; Corneal Infections Associated with Sleeping in Contact Lenses ï¿½ Six Cases, United States, 2016ï¿½2018; What are Prions: The Charismatic Proteins; New section: Granuloma Inguinale (Donovanosis) Flesh-eatingï STD allegedly making the rounds; Granuloma Inguinale (Donovanosis); Suicide: Key Facts; Chronic Pain Among Suicide Decedents, 2003 to 2014: Findings From the National Violent Death Reporting System; Pain, Opioids, and Suicide Mortality in the United States;

Circadian Rhythm Disruption & the Link to Cancer Risk; What Happens When You Sleep?; The Comprehensive Guide to Sleep Deprivation: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment; Do Your Children Get Enough Sleep?; How night shifts disrupt metabolism;Poor sleep triggers viral loneliness and social rejection; The latest on blue light and sleep; Lack of sleep generates social anxiety that infects those around us; This is the No. 1 reason Americans are losing sleep; 4 Sleep Routine Tweaks You Can Make to Transform Your Health and Mood; Circadian Rhythms, Thyroid Hormone and Vision Loss; What Happens When You Sleep?;

Social Media Homeland Security subpoenas Twitter for data breach finder's account; 2018 Stats on Internet, Social Media, and Mobile Trends; Scientists on Twitter: Preaching to the choir or singing from the rooftops?; This photo of people taking photos haunts me Weï¿½re increasingly living our lives through, not just with, our phones; Digital media use linked to behavioral problems in kids - Teens who frequently use smartphones and multimedia devices are more likely to develop ADHD symptoms; 14% of Americans have changed their mind about an issue because of something they saw on social media; How Teens and Parents Navigate Screen Time and Device Distractions;How To Check If Your Twitter Account Has Been Hacked; 7 Twitter Tricks You Should Know About;

Statistical FunctionsNew section:California Consumer Privacy Act; AB-375 Privacy: personal information: businesses.(2017-2018); California Consumer Privacy Act: What businesses need to know
California recently passed the act, which allows users to control how their data is shared with companies; Alarming Error Common in Survey Analyses; California Consumer Privacy Act: What you need to know to be compliant
California's new privacy law, AB 375, might not burden security as much as the GDPR, but details are subject to change; When writing about survey data, 51% might not mean a ï¿½majorityï¿½; New section: Odds Ratio; Odds Ratiosï¿½Current Best Practice and Use; Understanding the t-distribution and its normal approximation; My Data Request;

Temperament How Your Personality Can Affect Your Health; 10 Things You Don't Know about Yourself; How happy you are may depend on the type of personality;

Tobacco Health Systems Change - Starter Toolkit for Clinics; Kids sneak smoking substitute into school - New undetectable JUUL device is more likely to hook kids on nicotine than free adults from cigarettes; #Hookahlife: Social media posts spread misleading information on hookah use; Harms of Cigarette Smoking and Health Benefits of Quitting; Vaping May Not Help Smokers Kick the Habit, E-cigarette users no more likely to quit than non-users in study; Are electronic nicotine delivery systems helping cigarette smokers quit? Evidence from a prospective cohort study of U.S. adult smokers, 2015ï¿½2016;The more you smoke, the greater your risk of a heart rhythm disorder; E-cigarettes increase cardiovascular risk as much as cigarettes do; Use of nicotine during pregnancy may increase risk of sudden infant death syndrome; E-Cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults: Aï¿½Report of the Surgeon General; Study casts doubt on effectiveness of e-cigs for smoking cessation; Are electronic nicotine delivery systems helping cigarette smokers quit? Evidence from a prospective cohort study of U.S. adult smokers, 2015ï¿½2016; American Thoracic Society Amicus brief; Cigar Makers Skirt Flavor Bans With Ambiguous Labels; Flavour chemicals in a sample of non-cigarette tobacco products without explicit flavour names sold in New York City in 2015; Tobacco Product Use Among Middle and High School Students ï¿½ United States, 2011ï¿½2017; E-cigarette vapor disables key immune cells in the lung and boosts inflammation - Effects similar to those seen in regular smokers and patients with chronic lung disease; Childhood Smoke Exposure Tied to Early COPD Death - Adult exposure also linked to increased all-cause mortality in never-smokers; Tobacco Atlas; E-cigarettes Shaped Like USB Flash Drives: Information for Parents, Educators, and Health Care; SmokeFreeTeen; About Electronic Cigarettes (E-Cigarettes); Vaping Can Damage DNA, Saliva Study Suggests - E-cigarette users showed DNA change linked to acrolein exposure; E-Cig Flavorings May Damage Blood Vessel Lining; Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Tobacco Product Use Among Middle and High School Students ï¿½ United States, 2014ï¿½2017; Where There's Smoke; Request for Investigative and Enforcement Action to Stop Deceptive Advertising Online; Global Issues: Warning Labels; Study: Cold Turkey Best for Cutting Cigarette Nicotine Content - Trial results favor immediate over gradual reduction; E-cigarettes Shaped Like USB Flash Drives: Information for Parents, Educators, and Health Care Providers; Keep Kids E-Cigarette Free; F.D.A. Cracks Down on Juul and E-Cigarette Retailers; Prevalence of Cannabis Use in Electronic Cigarettes Among US Youth;

US Government Statistics 10 Things to Know About CBO; Oversight of the Congressional Budget Office; The 2015 National School Climate Survey - The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Youth in Our Nationï¿½s Schools; Incomes of whites, blacks, Hispanics and Asians in the U.S., 1970 and 2016; 2018ï¿½s States with the Best & Worst School Systems; 2015-16 Civil Rights Data Collection: School Climate & Safety, new for 2018; The American middle class is stable in size, but losing ground financially to upper-income families; Are you in the American middle class? Find out with our income calculator;

Web Resources Defending Against Illicit Cryptocurrency Mining Activity; What Is WPA3, and When Will I Get It On My Wi-Fi?; What is Cryptojacking, and How Can You Protect Yourself?; After 14 years, a new generation of Wi-Fi security is coming. Hereï¿½s what to know; Mini-glossary: Cryptocurrency terms you need to know; Microsoft CEO calls on Congress to regulate use of facial recognition, The executive says itï¿½s important that lawmakers create comprehensive standards; FTC Recommends Best Practices for Companies That Use Facial Recognition Technologies; Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if Youï¿½re a White Guy; The Perpetual Line-up - Unregulated Face Recognition in America; Amazon shareholders call for halt of facial recognition sales to police-The tech giant is receiving pressure from nearly 20 groups to end the practice; Are ïou just inside your skin or is your smartphone part of you? Extended Mind Thesis; ADHD may have modest link with teen tech use
More than half of teens admit they are heavy screen users; How to Search on Google: 31 Google Advanced Search Tips; Chemists discover how blue light from digital devices speeds blindness; Blue light from smartphones or laptops may be slowly making us blind; New section: Augmented and virtual reality; Augmented and virtual reality mean business: Everything you need to know An executive guide to the technology and market drivers behind the hype in AR, VR, and MR;Augmented and virtual reality; The Plain English Guide to Machine Learning vs. Deep Learning;Internet of Things (IoT): Cheat sheet; Federal Office for Radiation Protection; Is fortnite becoming a relationship wrecker?;

Best meditation apps for iOS and Android to relieve stress;The best job search apps for iOS and Android to help you get hired; Apps to Stop Panic and Anxiety; Discover Herbal Products App;StepUp - The Social Pedometer App; Foodswitch App; 10 Anxiety Relief Apps to Take the Edge Off When Stress Hits Hard; 12 mobile apps to organize and simplify your life;

Wellness Resources Part I (1 - 5) The best job search apps for iOS and Android to help you get hired; 30 Things People Will Say If They Want to Cheat; If youï¿½re wondering why youï¿½ve lost friends in adulthood, this is probably why - We all do it, and itï¿½s probably doing damage to our friendships; Early family experience affects later romantic relationships;

Writing Junk Food and Junk News: The Case for ï¿½Information Fitnessï¿½; Everyday Words for Public Health Communication; Checking the source: how to read a scientific paper; By the Book, Which English Is Better?; Why you shouldnï¿½t say ï¿½girls are as good as boys at mathï¿½; 12 Grammatical Errors Even Smart People Make; Why we're susceptible to fake news, how to defend against it;Tips on writing for email vs. writing for social media;40 Everyday Slang Words That Were Invented Online; See the Top Slang Term from Every U.S. State; 20 Slang Terms From the 1950s No One Uses Anymore; 20 Slang Terms From the 1960s No One Uses Anymore; 20 Slang Terms From the 1970s No One Uses Anymore; 20 Slang Terms From the 1980s No One Uses Anymore; 20 Slang Terms From the 1990s No One Uses Anymore; 40 Slang Terms No One Over 40 Should Ever Use; Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate; How Ad Fontes Ranks News Sources - ad fontes media;

October - December 2018

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Academic Resources Your IQ Matters Less Than You Think
In studies of children and historical figures, IQ falls short as a measure of success;

Four in U.K. develop cancer after organ transplant. Is there cause for worry? ; How 1 organ donor transferred breast cancer to 4 recipients; How 1 organ donor transferred breast cancer to 4 recipients; Organs from a single donor spread breast cancer to 4 transplant recipients in an 'extraordinary case'; Cancer Spreads from Organ Donor to 4 People in 'Extraordinary' Case;; Most Surprising Facts About Cancer; Financial Toxicity (Financial Distress) and Cancer Treatment (PDQÂ®)â€“Patient Version; What People With Cancer Wish You Knew; Cancer Words You Need to Know; What You Can Do to Prevent Cancer and Why It Works; What You Need to Know About Polyps; Lower Your Risk of Cancer; 15 Cancer Symptoms to Know; CAR T-Cell Therapy Infographic; Surveillance for Cancers Associated with Tobacco Use â€” United States, 2010â€“2014; How to Spot the Early Warning Signs of Cancer; Biopsy: Types of biopsy procedures used to diagnose cancer; MayoClinic's Cancer Page; Alcohol and Cancer;

How One Photographer Captured Asians In American History; Genomic Analyses from Non-invasive Prenatal Testing Reveal Genetic Associations, Patterns of Viral Infections, and Chinese Population History; The Ultimate Guide to Chinese Noodle Styles; Pandas 101: Everything You Need to Know About Visiting â€˜Large Bear Catsâ€™ in Chengdu, China; Birthright citizenship: A Trump-inspired history lesson on the 14th Amendment; â€˜Cheap slavesâ€™: Trump, immigration and the ugly history of the Chinese Exclusion Act; The Return of the â€˜Bad Boysâ€™ of Chinatown;

Favorite Music Sites Best Free Music Apps for Android and iPhone; A History of Alternative Music Brilliantly Mapped Out on a Transistor Radio Circuit Diagram: 300 Punk, Alt & Indie Artists; A Massive 800-Track Playlist of 90s Indie & Alternative Music, in Chronological Order;

Graphing New section: Information Visualization; How to Represent Linear Data Visually for Information Visualization; The Principles of Information Visualization for Basic Network Data; How to Show Hierarchical Data with Information Visualization;

Maternal Child Health Trauma During Childhood Could Shorten Lifespan; Genetic testing: Opportunities to unlock value in precision medicine; Patients who experienced childhood trauma may be at an increased risk of early death, researchers say ; Genetics has learned a ton â€” mostly about white people. Thatâ€™s a problem. The overwhelming whiteness of genetics research is holding back medicine; What Defines a Stem Cell? Our cells have more diverse regenerative capabilities than anyone expected;

Nutrition Resources FDA Bans Use of 7 Synthetic Food Additives After Environmental Groups Sue; How A 19th Century Chemist Took On The Food Industry With A Grisly Experiment; This is the Difference Between Club Soda, Seltzer, and Sparkling Water; Just a single chocolate bar may boost memory, cognition, immunity, and mood; Foods You Canâ€™t Stop Eating -- But Should; 5 Myths About Eggs That Just Won't Die; 2015â€“2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans; Scientists keep finding new ways energy drinks are terrible for you; Energy drink consumption in Europe: a review of the risks, adverse health effects, and policy options to respond; New section: Iron; Iron Is the New Cholesterol Elevated iron is at the center of a web of disease stretching from cancer to diabetes;

;Your Definitive Guide To Intermittent Fasting; Reasons Youâ€™re Not Losing Weight; Study suggests childhood obesity linked to poor school performance and coping skills;The 'toxic fat' that can strangle your organs and how to shed it; What Types of Fat Are Easier to Lose?; On Average, How Long Does It Take to Lose Belly Fat?; The Most Dangerous Fat Is the Easiest to Lose;

Public Health Data New CDC Analysis Shows Steep and Sustained Increases in STDs; Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity Data Portal; Any Use and Frequent Use of Opioids among Elderly Adults in 2015â€“2016, by Socioeconomic Characteristics; Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths â€” United States, 2013â€“2017; 2018 Annual Surveillance Report of Drug-Related Risks and Outcomes | United States;

Public Health Data Mental Health By The Numbers; 2018 State of State Early Childhood Data Systems; Abortion Surveillance” United States, 2015;Levels &amp Trends in Child Mortality Estimates developed by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation

Public Health Sites A - C WHO's Alcohol Fact Sheet ; Alcohol Consumption Health Outcomes; Can You Drink Hand Sanitizer? Drinking and Getting Drunk From Hand Sanitizer; Hand Sanitizer: What's the Real Story?; Even drinking a little each day ups your risk of early death; Adolescent mental health; Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Adults and Adolescents Living with HIV; Treatment Approaches for Drug Addiction; HIV/AIDS Also called: Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, AIDS, HIV, Human immunodeficiency virus; A Visual Journey Through Addiction;

Public Health Sites D-G Teen Cannabis Use Tied to Lasting Cognitive Changes - Longitudinal study provides strong evidence for adverse causal effect; New section: GHB; GHB drug use associated with long-term cognitive changes; The Struggle to Track Global Sea Rise; Signs of fracking water found in freshwater mussels; More than one in ten heavy cannabis users experience withdrawal after quitting cannabis; When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves; Effects of Cannabis on the Adolescent Brain; Cellphone radiation may cause cancer in rats, report finds - â€œWe agree that these findings should not be applied to human cell phone usage,â€ the FDA said; Study: Giving Up Pot for a Month Leads to Better Memory in Young Adults; Adolescent cannabis use alters development of planning, self-control brain areas; New insights into the neural risks and benefits of marijuana use - Compounds in cannabis can impair or improve memory depending on age, disease; Statement from Jeffrey Shuren, M.D., J.D., Director of the FDAâ€™s Center for Devices and Radiological Health on the National Toxicology Programâ€™s report on radiofrequency energy exposure; HHS recommended that the DEA make kratom a Schedule I drug, like LSD or heroin; Why Global Warming Can Mean Harsher Winter Weather; Climate change: How do we know?; Painkillers and Opioid Use Disorder; Explainer: The polar vortex, climate change and the â€˜Beast from the Eastâ€™; FOURTH NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSESSMENT Volume II: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States;
USGCRP, 2018: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States: Fourth National Climate
Assessment, Volume II: Report-in-Brief; Fourth National Climate Assessment Volume II â€” Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States - 4 Summary Findings; The main types of seismic waves: P, S, and surface waves; Synthetic Cannabinoids Linked to Bleeding; Climate change: Where we are in seven charts and what you can do to help; 2018 | The Year in Climate Change; The truth about talc, parabens and 8 other controversial makeup ingredients; Fentanyl overtakes heroin as the No. 1 opioid overdose killer;

Public Health Sites O-Z Anal cancer explained: Farrah Fawcett, Marcia Cross and the unspoken HPV cancer killing women as well as men; Weird Things That Happen to Your Skin as You Age; Suicide Prevention - If You Know Someone in Crisis; Suicide in America: Frequently Asked Questions; Suicide Increasing Among American Workers;Syphilis;

Public Health Software The Culture of Social Comparison Map; US Health Map Viz Hub; Discover Fascinating Vintage Maps From National Geographic's Archives; The Opportunity Atlas; Maps Have the Power to Shape History; Use these interactive tools to view and download real-time, full-resolution satellite imagery.;

Senior Health 9 Scientific Secrets to Healthy Aging; Ultimate Guide to Social Media & Online Dating Safety for Seniors; As we age our bones get more brittle: What you need to know about falling; Simple Tips to Help Prevent Broken Bones;

The brain replays memories as you sleep to make sure you donâ€™t lose them; Sleep Deprivation and Deficiency; 16 Ways Daylight Saving Could Affect Your Health, According to Science; Good sleep quality encourages better recovery after sport-related concussion; Daylight saving time: 4 surprising health effects of 'falling back'; Daylight savings time and myocardial infarction; The clocks 'fall back' and daylight saving time ends on Sunday. Here's how to survive the darker days.;Disrupted circadian rhythms may drive anxiety and exacerbate brain disorders - New studies reveal critical role of healthy sleep and powerful role of circadian rhythm regulation in the brain; Lab guinea pigs put to the test to see when we burn the most calories; How can we improve a teenâ€™s brain? One sleep study may have a simple answer â€” good pillows; Too much sleep linked to a greater risk of disease and death, study finds;

Social Media Your Facebook friends don't mean it, but they're likely hurting you daily, study finds; How Facebook friends hurt our feelings and our thinking; Children and Adolescents and Digital Media; Media and Young Minds; Family Media Plan; Facebook posts with these words can predict depression; Social media use increases depression and loneliness, study finds;The 13 Best Free Social Media Monitoring Tools for Every Marketing Team;

Statistical Functions Statistical forecasting: notes on regression and time series analysis; 8 facts about Americans and Facebook;

Temperament The faults in our personalities are all expressions of our â€˜dark coreâ€™; Do you have a healthy personality? Researchers think they can tell you Study looks at typical personality types; The Healthy Personality from a Basic Trait Perspective;

Special Report: Juul copycats flood e-cig market, despite FDA rule; Sales of JUUL e-cigarettes skyrocket, posing danger to youth; Quick Facts on the Risks of E-cigarettes for Kids, Teens, and Young Adults; Teens Who Vape More Likely to Smoke and Vape in Early Adulthood; Tobacco industryâ€™s carbon footprint mirrors entire countries â€” cost of cigarettes should reflect the environmental damage, WHO says; Plastic straw ban? Cigarette butts are the single greatest source of ocean trash; Cigarette butts have long been the single most collected item on the worldâ€™s beaches, with a total of more than 60 million collected over 32 years; Vaping might be more dangerous than smoking;FDA Says Vape Liquid Contains Erectile Dysfunction Drug - Company warned to stop selling the illegal products; Study: Men Who Smoke Unaware of Erectile Dysfunction Risk - Impotence warnings might motivate men to kick the habit; Adding flavors to e-cigarette liquids changes chemistry, creates irritants; Researchers Explore Health Effects of E-Cigarettes;Tobacco Product Use Among Adults â€” United States, 2017; Use of Electronic Cigarettes and Any Tobacco Product Among Middle and High School Students â€” United States, 2011â€“2018; Youth Tobacco Use: Results from the National Youth Tobacco Survey; Q&A: The ABCs of E-Cigarettes; Reasons for Electronic Cigarette Use Among Middle and High School Students â€” National Youth Tobacco Survey, United States, 2016; Surveillance for Cancers Associated with Tobacco Use â€” United States, 2010â€“2014; Exposure to Secondhand Smoke Among Nonsmokers â€” United States, 1988â€“2014; Surgeon Generalâ€™s Advisory on E-cigarette Use Among Youth;

US Government Statistics The Distribution of Household Income, 2015 November 2018; This Chart Shows How Much Money Everyone in America Actually Makes;

Web Resources Wi-Fi is rebranding itself: Here's how to understand the new naming; Infographic: The history of AR and VR, and what the future holds; Alert (AA18-284A) Publicly Available Tools Seen in Cyber Incidents Worldwide;What is WiGig, and How Is It Different From Wi-Fi 6?; 10 Tips To Reduce Cell Phone Radiation;13 Ways to Reduce Cell Phone Radiation; How to Keep Your Digital Life Safe and Secure; The Problem With AI: Machines Are Learning Things, But Canâ€™t Understand Them; Cybercrime and cyberwar: A spotter's guide to the groups that are out to get you; The state of cyberwarfare: 2 things you need to know; Putting a Finger on Our Phone Obsession Mobile touches: a study on humans and their tech; Can't put down the phone? How smartphones are changing our brains â€” and lives One study showed Americans touch their mobile devices more than 2,600 times a day; Mobile Fact Sheet; Your Smartphone Is Changing the Human Race in Surprising Ways; Networking trends and news: 2018 year in review; 5 biggest security vulnerabilities of 2018; 5 biggest IoT security failures of 2018; Cyberwar predictions for 2019: The stakes have been raised;

Keep your 2019 New Year's Resolutions on track with these apps. Halfway through February, most people will have given up on their New Year's resolutions by. Here are apps to help you buck the trend; Jumpstart Your New Yearâ€™s Goals with These Trending Self-Help Apps;

Writing Detecting fake news, at its source; Media Bias Fact Check as a resource; Give Merriam Webster the Year You Were Born and They'll Give You the Hot New Words From Then; How Writing in a Journal Helps Manage Depression; Protecting the Value of Medical Science in the Age of Social Media and Fake News;

January - March 2019

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Academic Resources Youthful cognitive ability strongly predicts mental capacity later in life. Education, job complexity and intellectual activities play only minor roles; Exercise may improve thinking skills in people as young as 20; Multitasking increases in online courses compared to face-to-face; A new study shows that students learn way more effectively from print textbooks than screens; College Completion Rates Are Up, But The Numbers Will Still Surprise You;

Annotated Great Books Bibliography Lisa See's Snow Flower and the Secret Fan; Nancy Isenberg's White Trash. The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America; Steven Ozment's The Burgermeister's Daughter. Scandal in a Sixteen Century German Town;

Chronic noise can impact heart health; High Blood Pressure Fact Sheet; How to Prevent Heart Disease; AHA/ACC/AACVPR/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/ADA/AGS/APhA/ASPC/NLA/PCNA Guideline on the Management of Blood Cholesterol; 2018 Landmark Cardiology Trials, in Graphic Form Six trials that will influence practice and research for years to come; Even Modestly Elevated BP Tied to Brain Shrinkage in Young Adults Subtle changes seen in 20- to 30-year-olds, even at 120/80 mm Hg; Management of Blood Cholesterol; Slide Set | 2018 Blood Cholesterol Guideline; Blood Cholesterol: Guideline on the Management of; Cholesterol Management at a Glance; Hypertension (High Blood Pressure);

Sex and Race Differences in the Association of Incident Ischemic Stroke With Risk Factors; What Causes Strokes?; Stroke: Signs and Symptoms; Fathers-to-be who smoke can harm babies;

Chinese Culture Asian Americans Likely to Have More Severe Strokes. But they're less likely to receive tPA, analysis shows ; 21 Things You Didnâ€™t Know About Chinese New Year; Higher Breast Cancer Risk Among Immigrant Asian American Women Than Among US-Born Asian American Women;

Statistics, Reports and Fact Sheets; Adverse Childhood Experiences in Connecticut; HIV in Connecticut In 2017, 281 new HIV infections were reported to DPH;

Cool Sites M - Z Cutting Out These 15 Expenses Will Save You $9,295.94 a Year; Every Single Tax Deduction You Could Possibly Ask For;

Prevalence of Total, Diagnosed, and Undiagnosed Diabetes Among Adults: United States, 2013â€“2016; Diet Soda Linked to Risk for Diabetic Blindness; Treatment and Monitoring of Adults with Diagnosed Diabetes by Race/Ethnicity, 2015â€“2016; Prevalence and Changes in Preexisting Diabetes and Gestational Diabetes Among Women Who Had a Live Birth â€” United States, 2012â€“2016; Gestational Diabetes; Elevated risk of cardiovascular disease in young Women who had gestational diabetes during pregnancy; Treatment and Monitoring of Adults with Diagnosed Diabetes by Race/Ethnicity, 2015â€“2016;

miology Manual (2018);

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about... Historical Perceptions: The History of the Things we Take for Granted; The periodic table might have looked very different indeed. The United Nations has declared 2019 the International Year of the Periodic Table;

Favorite Movie SitesLibrary of Congress Films and Videos; Find free public domain movies; Documentary Heaven; Movies and shows may help people with attachment issues better navigate their own relationships;

Health Care Information New section: Finding Hospital Charges; Hospital Chargemasters; You can now look up charges at your local hospital. Good luck understanding them; Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online; Nearly all hospitals will give you the price of parking. Barely any will give you the price of health care; Look Up Your Hospital: Is It Being Penalized By Medicare?;

Maternal Child Health Adoption & Foster Care Statistics; A simple guide to CRISPR, one of the biggest science stories of the decade; Adverse Childhood Experiences in Connecticut; State-level data for understanding child welfare in the United States; Genetic testing: Opportunities to unlock value in precision medicine; Genetics Resources; Race against time: ethnicity of many crucial medical cell lines misclassified. For some diseases, ethnicity counts. But researchers have found some cell lines classified as African American are in fact European; W.H.O. Panel Demands a Registry for Human Gene Editing; How to Stop Rogue Gene-Editing of Human Embryos? Some U.S. researchers knew of a Chinese scientist's intentions to implant edited embryos but were unable to stop him. Now scientific institutions are trying to devise global safeguards; Immunization schedules; Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule for ages 19 years or older, United States, 2019; Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule by Medical Condition and Other Indications, United States, 2019; Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule for ages 18 years or younger, United States, 2019;

Nutrition Resources MedlinePlus Nutrition Page; You Don't Have To Go No-Carb: Instead, Think Slow Carb; Hearts and minds: fruit and veg boost well-being;Is Coffee good or bad? A critical look on the science behind it; Guide to Meat and Egg Terms; Two or more diet sodas a day may increase risk of stroke; Food Poisoning Symptoms; The Skinny on Fat. The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown; What is seafood fraud? Dangerousâ€”and running rampant, report finds.In a test of fish bought in 24 states and the District of Columbia, Oceana found consumers weren't getting what they paid for;

Public Health Data Diagnoses of HIV Infection in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2017 ; Deaths: Leading Causes for 2016; Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System; Proposition 65 Warnings; HIV Prevention Progress Report, 2019 Includes national and state level data for 2010 through 2017 where available; HIV Among Women;

Public Health Data Trends in the Prevalence of Suicideâ€“Related Behaviors National YRBS: 1991-2017; Global trends in risk factors leading to early death and disability; School Shooters: What's Their Path To Violence?; DEADLY DELIVERIES Childbirth complication rates at maternity hospitals - Searchable database;

Public Health Sites A - C The five most addictive substances in the world; HIV Viral Load and Transmissibility of HIV Infection. Undetectable Equals Untransmittable; For HIV, Treatment is Prevention; Cannabis use in teens linked to risk of depression in young adults. Cannabis use among adolescents is found to be associated with increased risk of depression and anxiety in adulthood;Most U.S. Teens See Anxiety and Depression as a Major Problem Among Their Peers; Understanding the Impact of HIV: Diagnoses, Incidence, and Prevalence; Signs of a Severe Allergic Reaction;

Public Health Sites D-G Marijuana can alter DNA in sperm; Serum concentrations of PFASs and exposure-related behaviors in African American and non-Hispanic white women; Proposition 65 List The list contains a wide range of naturally occurring and synthetic chemicals that are known to cause cancer or birth defects or other reproductive harm. These chemicals include additives or ingredients in pesticides, common household products, food, drugs, dyes, or solvents; STATE OF CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH HAZARD ASSESSMENT SAFE DRINKING WATER AND TOXIC ENFORCEMENT ACT OF 1986 CHEMICALS KNOWN TO THE STATE TO CAUSE CANCER OR REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY November 23, 2018; CBD is everywhere. But is it a scam?; Transgender Identity and Experiences of Violence Victimization, Substance Use, Suicide Risk, and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among High School Students â€” 19 States and Large Urban School Districts, 2017; Drugged Driving; National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals - Updated Tables January 2019; New section: Nootropics; Are â€˜smart drugsâ€™ all they claim to be?; Exposure to glyphosate the world's most widely used, broad-spectrum herbicide and the primary ingredient in the weed killer Roundup increases the risk of some cancers by more than 40 percent, according to new research; Poison control calls for kratom have soared in recent years; Chemical added to consumer products impairs response to antibiotic treatment. Triclosan added to toothpaste, mouthwash to kill bacteria inadvertently makes such cells stronger; It's high time we took a breath from marijuana commercialization; Suicides Among Lesbian and Gay Male Individuals: Findings From the National Violent Death Reporting System; Radiation-Emitting Products Current Research Results; $16B and Counting: The Climate Change List No One Wants to Be On; Kratom: Unsafe and ineffective. Users swear by kratom for mood enhancement and fatigue reduction, but safety issues and questions about its effectiveness abound; Clearing the Air: A Review of the Effects of Particulate Matter Air Pollution on Human Health; Tectonics in the tropics trigger Earth's ice ages, study finds. Major tectonic collisions near the equator have caused three ice ages in the last 540 million years;

Research Resources on the NetFocus groups shape what we buy. But how much do they really say about us? Even in the age of big data, brands can't quit the focus group; On a scale from 1 to 10, how much do the numbers used in survey scales really matter?;

Search Engines Index How to tell the dark web from the deep web; Questions about the Dark Web that you were afraid to ask;

Senior Health 10 U.S. States That Tax Your Social Security Benefits (and How); Daily Movement Even Household Chores May Boost Brain Health In Elderly; Alcohol and the Aging Process;

How Does Sleep Affect Your Heart Health?; Sleeping less than six hours a night may take a toll on heart health; Ever wake up to a numb, dead arm? Heres wha's happening; Learning new vocabulary during deep sleep; Study helps solve mystery of how sleep protects against heart disease; Brain connections that disadvantage night owls revealed; Sleep More, Weigh Less; How disrupted sleep may lead to heart disease; Sleep tight! Researchers identify the beneficial role of sleep. Sleep increases chromosome dynamics that clear out DNA damage accumulated during waking hours; Daylight Savings Time Seems to Be Really Bad for Our Health; Did you know it's linked to an increase in heart attacks?; How to prep your body for daylight saving time; Sleep loss leads to contagious loneliness; Weekend catch-up can't counter chronic sleep deprivation; Sleep Problems; The Well Quiz: Are You a Morning Person?; How to Sleep; Poor sleep might make you more likely to procrastinate;What late-night snacking has to do with sleep
Participants in a new study ate more after dinner when they were sleep-deprived;

Social Media Millennials, Social Media, and Depression, Depressed college students spent more time on social media ; Extensive Facebook Use Linked to Poor Health, Decision-Making; Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale; Facebook Algorithms and Personal Data; On Facebook and Twitter your privacy is at risk -- even if you don't have an account, study finds; Is anything private in the digital age?; Is anything private in the digital age?; Can Anyone Really Track My Phone's Precise Location?; Facebook and Twitter put your privacy at risk even when you don't use them; Passive Facebook usage undermines affective well-being: Experimental and longitudinal evidence; This Is Your Brain Off Facebook - Planning on quitting the social platform? A major new study offers a glimpse of what unplugging might do for your life. (Spoiler: It's not so bad.); 10 facts about Americans and Facebook; In disasters, Twitter influencers get out-tweeted. Unlikely heroes often emerge in disasters, and the same is true on social media, research says; 7 things we've learned about computer algorithms;

Statistical Procedures Why Data Is Never Raw
On the seductive myth of information free of human judgment; You're not wrong, you just have a small sample size problem;

Electronic cigarettes and nicotine clinical pharmacology; What's in Store for 'Nico-Teens'? Pediatricians weigh in on the potential long-term hazards of adolescent vaping; Surveillance for Cancers Associated with Tobacco Use United States, 2010-2014; Complementary Health Approaches for Quitting Smoking; The vape company Juul said it doesn't target teens. Its early ads tell a different story. A new analysis of Juul's marketing campaign suggests it targeted youth from its inception; Vaping gone viral: the astonishing surge in teens e-cigarette use Youth use of e-cigarettes is rising at the fastest-recorded rate for any substance; National Adolescent Drug Trends in 2018;4 big takeaways from the most comprehensive report on e-cigarettes yet. E-cigarettes may help adult smokers quit tobacco. But they also entice young people to start smoking; Dramatic Increase in Teens' Smoking Risk With Previous Vaping; Greatest impact on lowest-risk teens in prospective study; Association of Electronic Cigarette Use With Subsequent Initiation of Tobacco Cigarettes in US Youths; Tips to Help Avoid "Vape" Battery Explosions; Nicotine works inside our neurons to reinforce addiction; Buttery E-Cig Flavorings May Impair Lung Function. Chemicals altered cilia expression in lab study; Flavoring Chemicals in E-Cigarettes: Diacetyl, 2,3-Pentanedione, and Acetoin in a Sample of 51 Products, Including Fruit-, Candy-, and Cocktail-Flavored E-Cigarettes; Tobacco Product Use Among Adults United States, 2017; Surveillance for Cancers Associated with Tobacco Use United States, 2010-2014; 'Polytobacco' Use: A Gateway to Cigarettes for Young Adults? Study examines changes in multiple tobacco product use over time; Tobacco Product Use Among Middle and High School Students” United States, 2011-2018; Tobacco Product Use Among Middle and High School Students” United States, 2011-2018; Quitting Smoking; The Real Cost of Vaping; The Facts About Vaping - Help your students avoid addiction with a research project about the dangers of e-cigarettes; FDA's Comprehensive Plan for Tobacco and Nicotine Regulation; Results from 2018 National Youth Tobacco Survey show dramatic increase in e-cigarette use among youth over past year; Secondhand Smoke and Cancer; Use of Electronic Vapor Products Before, During, and After Pregnancy Among Women with a Recent Live Birth â€” Oklahoma and Texas, 2015; Electronic cigarettes linked to wheezing in adults, new study finds; Nicotine replacements may also harm embryos. US research indicates that nicotine, divorced from tobacco, impacts embryo development; E-Cigarettes Linked to Heart Attacks, Coronary Artery Disease and Depression. Data reveal toll of vaping; researchers say switching to e-cigarettes doesn't eliminate health risks; The trouble with hookahs: water pipes as dangerous as cigarettes. American Heart Association issues strong warning over popular smoking habit; Adolescents are more likely than adults to use fruit- and candy-flavored e-cigarettes, study finds; Surgeon General's Advisory on E-cigarette Use Among Youth; Slow Medicine: Vaping a Smokescreen? A take on e-cigarettes for smoking cessation; Hookah Use Popular Among Youths, Tied to Health Risks-Smooth, aromatic smoke belies increased risk of addiction, CVD, toxicity, AHA warns; Nicotine and addiction;

US Government Statistics 5 facts about crime in the U.S.; Victims of Identity Theft, 2016; Federal Justice Statistics, 2015-2016;Defining generations: Where Millennials end and Generation Z begins; Completing College: A National View of Student Completion Ratesâ€”Fall 2012 Cohort; Completing College National 2018;

Web Resources The IOT Data Explosion: How Big Is the IoT Data Market? ; Have i been pwned?; Hasso Plattner Institute; Smartphone Ownership Is Growing Rapidly Around the World, but Not Always Equally; What is biometrics? And why collecting biometric data is risky Biometrics has the potential to make authentication dramatically faster, easier and more secure than traditional passwords, but companies need to be careful about the biometric data they collect; A robot that can touch, eat and sleep? The science of cyborgs like Alita: Battle Angel; How to check for identity theft. 9 warning signs of the top identity theft frauds and scams; Humans, machines and lawyers: legal problems loom for cyborgs. Human-machine hybrids already exist. The problem is the law doesnâ€™t recognise them; 5 Facts Everyone Should Know About Smartphone Radiation; Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped without consent; 23 milestones in the history of the web; Internet/Broadband Fact Sheet; Mobile Fact Sheet; Study confirms that your smartphone is why you're tired and lazy. Scientists say we're losing more sleep over our phones, but you probably knew that; Americans are checking their phones now more than ever, report says Sixty-three percent of those surveyed by Deloitte are trying to cut back their screen time, but only around half of them are successful in doing so;

Women's Health - Heart Disease and Stroke Heart Disease in Women; Spontaneous coronary artery dissection, or SCAD; Exercise Doesn't Need to Be Intense to Yield Benefit. Less heart disease in older women who move around but don't expend a lot of energy;

Writing Who spreads fake news? Overwhelmingly, old white men. Analysis of 2016 Presidential election Facebook posts found most people didnâ€™t fall for made-up stories, but elderly conservative males were a significant exception.; How fake news is changing the internet
The tools we all use for knowledge, communication and business are being re-engineered to stop disinformation. Is our loss of control worth it?; Advances in artificial intelligence could soon make creating convincing fake audio and video“ known as deepfakes relatively easy; Why Misinformation Is About Who You Trust, Not What You Think; When it comes to conspiracy theories, intuition and stress conspire against you. The enduring appeal of crap;

April Fools hoax stories could offer clues to help identify 'fake news';